MARION COUNTY — A 28-year-old Salem man was sentenced to more than 40 years in prison Wednesday in the first of three cases accusing him of sexually assaulting a child.

Marion County resident judge Mark Stedelin found Devon Q. Gibbs guilty earlier this summer on all four felony counts accusing him of sexually assaulting a child.

Gibbs was initially charged with nine Class X felony counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child involving three different victims.

However, Judge Stedelin had granted the defendant’s motion to sever the counts involving each victim into three separate trials.

The trial in June lasted just over one day and was the first of those trials and involved four counts against one victim.

Gibbs was sentenced Wednesday to 6 years each on two of the charges and 15 years on each of the two other charges, to be served consecutively. He’ll have to serve 85 percent of his sentence followed by three years to life supervised release.

A pretrial hearing in the second case is scheduled for the two remaining child sexual assault cases, as is a status in an earlier case charging him with home invasion.

Gibbs was arrested in 2020 on two Class X felony charges of home invasion and Class 3 felony aggravated battery in connection with an incident at a Salem home.

The resident reportedly told police he woke up when hearing the back door open.

He then saw the two men enter his downstairs room where he was cut in the arm with an unknown object. The two then exited the back door and fled on foot.