Ex-Young and the agitated actor convicted of child molestation

A model and actor who appeared on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless was convicted of plague in his native Georgia, confirms PEOPLE.

A jury on June 28 found Corey Sligh guilty of molesting a girl under the age of 10 in 2016, a spokeswoman for the Canton Court of Cherokee in Canton confirms. Sligh was charged but found not guilty of a second charge, records show.

He faces five to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced to a later date on the crime, according to prosecutor Shannon Wallace, reports Cherighee Tribune .

Sligh is also facing prosecution for a similar charge in Okaloosa County, Florida, said Bill Bishop, an badistant county attorney, according to the point of sale

Sligh is being held in Cherokee County Jail. A lawyer could not be reached to speak on his behalf.

Corey Sligh

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office

Sligh pleaded not guilty after being arrested in Georgia on October 14th. , 2016, and charged with the felony child aggression. A police report at the time, obtained by PEOPLE, says that he was arrested at his home in Canton.

A spokeswoman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office who confirmed the arrest to PEOPLE stated that Sligh knew the victim.

One of the victim's parents reported the attack to the authorities on September 24, 2016, according to police records obtained by PEOPLE.

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Sligh was arrested in November 2016 a woman contacted the Walton County Sheriff's Office to allege that Sligh had improperly touched her daughter while they were on vacation.

"I am innocent and I fight until the end," Sligh said in a statement. "The truth will prevail."

Sligh would appear for the last time on The Young and the Restless in 2014, playing an additional role as a bartender and waiter. According to his IMDB page, Sligh was also an extra in 2008 God Is Dead and co-starred in the Web series All About Lizzie.