Steven Joshua Dinkle, 31, was convicted in June of sexually abusing an incapacitated woman
Dinkle was given maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and $1,000 fine
Dinkle was onetime exalted cyclops of the Ozark branch of International Keystone Knights, a KKK group in Arkansas
Dinkle was indicted in 2013 on charges of helping burn a six-foot-tall cross four years earlier near a mostly black neighborhood
Dale County Circuit Judge William Fillmore sentenced Steven Joshua Dinkle to 10 years in prison and fined him $1,000, according to a court order signed Thursday.
A jury convicted Dinkle, 31, of sexual abuse in June after prosecutors claimed he recorded himself sexually abusing a woman who was incapacitated by medication. A letter from the victim filed this week in court asked for a tough sentence for Dinkle.
'Don't go easy on him like everyone else. Show him there are consequences for his actions,' the woman wrote.
The judge gave Dinkle the maximum sentence, District Attorney Kirke Adams told reporters.
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