LINCOLN - The supreme court has upheld the 70 to 140 year prison sentence for a northeast Nebraska man convicted of sexually assaulting his adopted daughter.

Darryl Lierman was given that sentence in Antelope County District Court back in 2018. he was convicted on eight counts of sexual assault of a child.

Lierman appealed, saying that the district court shouldn't have been allowed to admit evidence from a prior sexual assault trial where he was acquitted.

But the state's high court disagreed, affirming Lierman's sentence in a decision released on Friday.

Prosecutors said during the trial that the abuse started in 2010, when the victim was just ten years old.