SEDGWICK COUNTY —A Kansas man sent to prison in March of 2020 for surreptitiously taking lewd photos of young women and young children has been found guilty of new sex crimes.
This week, a jury found 33-year-old James Dayvault guilty for the sexual abuse of a 7-year-old in 2015, according to the Sedgwick County District attorney's office.
According to court documents, Dayvault sexually abused a girl while she was playing outside after church.
In the 2020 case, a neighbor reported seeing Dayvault following young children and photographing them, according to Wichita Police. During the investigation, police recovered photos on his cell phone that included pornographic images of children and images taken up women’s skirts at various locations in Wichita including a local church and department store parking lot.
Dayvault's DNA in a national database connected him to the 2015 crime.