Longs man pleads guilty to sexual assault of a minor, receives 27-year sentence

A Longs man was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a young girl, according to a release from the State of South Carolina Office of the Solicitor Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.

Malikaih Taylor, 39, pleaded guilty without a recommendation or negotiation to first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, according to Leigh Andrew, an assistant solicitor who prosecuted the case for the 15th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

The release states that the case involved a girl who was 9 or 10 years at the time of the incidents.

The case was to go to trial this week before Taylor entered the guilty plea.

This story was originally published November 6, 2017 at 5:23 PM with the headline "Longs man pleads guilty to sexual assault of a minor, receives 27-year sentence."