SALINE COUNTY A 50-year-old Equality man was sentenced this week to more than 1,600 years in prison after he was convicted last July of more than 250 felony charges of criminal sexual assault of a child.

Ronald C. Yarber was formally charged in November 2015 with 16 counts Class X felony predatory criminal sexual assault and 240 counts Class 1 felony criminal sexual assault.

A Saline County jury found him guilty of all but two of those charges. Investigators testified at trial that some of Yarber’s victims were developmentally disabled children.

Yarber was a foster parent for the state, but court records show the victim in the case was not a foster child, but an adopted child.

Court records show the alleged sexual misconduct occurred between July 2004 and September 2009 at the Yarber’s home in Saline County.

A Saline County judge Tuesday sentenced Yarber to 1,652 years in prison this week and ordered him to pay $37,762 in various fines, fees, and court costs.