FLAGSTAFF — A 52-year-old Ash Fork man who married a teenage girl and then invited other men to have sex with her and other young women while he took photographs has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
A judge in Flagstaff handed down the sentence for Donald Leacock on Friday, calling his crimes "sick and grotesque."
Leacock pleaded guilty in July to sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, child abuse and vulnerable-adult abuse. He had originally been indicted on 41 counts.
The abuse became known in February, when a 14-year-old friend of Leacock's 16-year-old wife called the Coconino County Sheriff's Office to request help while she moved out of their home. The girl told deputies that Leacock had fondled her and taken nude pictures.
Detectives soon uncovered information that Leacock offered his wife sexually to local men and truckers through the Internet and CB radio.
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Detectives uncovered pornographic videos and photos of Leacock's wife and the other two victims.
Detectives alleged that Leacock created and distributed the videos and photos and that Leacock coerced the victims into "sex-slave" relationships and forced them into sexual situations.
He met his future wife and married her in Missouri with her mother's consent in 2007 when the girl was 15.
The sexual exploitation charges stem from when the girl was 14 and the couple weren't married.
The child-abuse charge involves the 14-year-old friend of Leacock's wife. The vulnerable- adult abuse charge involves an orchestrated rape of a slightly mentally retarded woman.
Two other men were arrested in connection with the sexual exploitation ring uncovered by detectives with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office. Their cases are still pending.
Leacock moved to Ash Fork, a rural Northern Arizona community between Flagstaff and Kingman, about two years ago.
He lived with his ex-wife and the teenager whom he married, authorities said.
