Man Pleads Guilty to Child Rape; Sentenced to 30 Years No Parole

July 29, 2022 – A Binghampton man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison without parole after he admitted to sexually abusing a young girl for the past three years, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Dedrick Bell, 37, pled guilty in Criminal Court to the felony charge of rape of a child. He was arrested in July of last year when a 13-old-girl told her mother that Bell had been sexually assaulting her since she was age 10.

When confronted by the child’s mother, Bell admitted that he had been sexually abusing the girl in various locations around the house, and sometimes in the backyard or in the car, when the mother was not home.

The case was handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Jermal Blanchard of the District Attorney’s Special Victims Unit (SVU) which prosecutes cases of child sexual abuse and severe physical abuse of children, elder abuse and vulnerable adult abuse.

The SVU was created as an expansion of the multi-agency Child Protection Investigative Team (CPIT).