Demarco's Child Molesting Sentence Halved

A judge has cut in half the prison sentence of Mentone resident Anthony Demarco, who a court convicted on four counts of child molesting last year. The judge reduced the sentence from 120 years to 60 years, after the Indiana Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s ruling in the case. Last December, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that Demarco’s original sentence was inappropriately harsh and ordered the Kosciusko Superior Court to reduce the sentence. The prosecutor unsuccessfully appealed that ruling to the Indiana Supreme Court. A jury convicted Demarco of molesting a teenage boy between 2002 and 2005. Before the investigation began, Demarco worked with youth as an employee of the Kosciusko County Y-M-C-A. He had also been a fourth- and fifth-grade basketball coach, a substitute teacher and a reserve police officer in Mentone and Silver Lake.