FAYETTE COUNTY — Prosecution and defense concluded their cases late Thursday afternoon in the Fayette County bench trial of a 45-year-old Missouri man charged with multiple child sex offenses.

Judge Kim Koester has given the attorneys in the case against Shelby Weston a week to supplement their closing arguments with written arguments before she renders a verdict in the case.

Weston is charged with four Class 2 felony counts of possessing child pornography, two counts Class 3 felony possessing child pornography, Class 3 felony traveling to meet a minor and Class 4 felony grooming.

He was arrested in March 2017 by Vandalia police when he allegedly went to meet an underage person for sex and was later found to be in possession of child pornography.

Weston has remained in the Fayette County Jail since his arrest, with bail set at $250,000.

Weston is a registered sex offender in Missouri, where he was convicted in 2004 on multiple charges including enticing and attempting to entice a child, as well as attempted statutory sodomy of a child.

According to Fayette County State’s Attorney Josh Morrison, the rendering of the verdict has not yet been scheduled as Judge Koester is also presiding over a murder trial scheduled for September 21 in Fayette County Court.