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A judges gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom. Photo via CBS News. A Collier County man was given two concurrent life sentences for child molestation after a trial for crimes committed over several years. Kendal Blackford, 42, was sentenced for two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation on a child under 12. He was found guilty in December after a jury trial in Collier County. (No mugshot of Blackford is available.) The Collier County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation in 2020 after it was suspected that Blackford abused a child. During the course of the investigation, it was determined that he had previously abused the victim over a three- to four-year period.