A 44-year-old DeLand man who was previously convicted of lewd and lascivious battery of a 15-year-old girl, accepted a plea deal and was sentenced this week for failing to register as a sex offender.
Lovence Kitching Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in state prison on multiple counts of failure to properly register as a sex offender.
In May, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office Career Criminal Unit began investigating Kitching. After a multi-week investigation, Kitching was arrested and charged in June.
Kitching’s trial was set to begin on Thursday, September 1, but he accepted a plea deal, according to court records.