A Wichita man will spend the next 22 years in prison for child sex crimes.
Alan Lee Greer, 33, was handed the sentence Friday by Allen County District Judge Daniel Creitz.
In ordering the sentence, Creitz took the rare step of rejecting recommendations spelled out in Greer’s plea agreement, opting instead for a harsher prison term — the maximum allowed by the state.
Creitz cited a provision in the state sentencing law, called the “double double” rule, in sentencing Greer to 330 months in prison for aggravated criminal sodomy.
As part of Greer’s plea agreement, reached in December 2015, the sentencing guidelines called for a 165-month prison term for the sodomy charge.
The double-double rule is allowed by the state if the judge finds “substantial and compelling” reasons for a harsher sentence.
Creitz said the court had to endure hours reviewing disturbing videos, pictures and other evidence.
“In 17 years of practice and about 15 years serving as a judge, it’s some of the most disturbing stuff I’ve ever had to see,” Creitz said.
Creitz also sentenced Greer to 59 months in prison for a charge of aggravated indecent liberties. That prison term will run concurrently with the 330-month sentence for the sodomy charge.
That means Greer’s sentence was 104 months — more than 8 ½ years — longer than what had been spelled out in the plea agreement.
Creitz is crediting Greer for time already served in jail, shaving more than five years of the 27-year prison sentence.
“Now 33, he has many years left of his sentence to serve,” Creitz decreed. “That is the appropriate thing to do.”
THE CHARGES were filed by the Kansas Attorney General’s office against Greer in February 2012. He pleaded no contest to aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties in December 2015. Sentencing was delayed after Greer changed defense attorneys following the plea agreement.
According to the original complaint, the crimes occurred between 2007 and 2009. The victim was born in 2006.
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The case was investigated by the Iola Police Department, the Chanute Police Department, the Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit, the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Attorney General’s Office.
