A 54-year-old Plano man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a young child, the Collin County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
Christopher Clark Owen was found guilty of sexual abuse of a 7-year-old child that spanned over several years, officials said.
According to the Collin County DA's Office, the young victim told his mother about the abuse, and she then reported it to the Plano Police Department, sparking the investigation into Owen.
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During his interview with Plano police detectives, Owen confessed to sexually abusing the child starting when the child was only 1 year old and continuing until the child was 6 years old, the news release states.