HENDERSON COUNTY MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO STATUTORY SEXUAL OFFENSE OF A MINOR

A Henderson County man was sentenced to at least 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual assault of a minor. According to an Aug. 17 news release from District Attorney R. Andrew, who serves Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties, Mason Edgar Shields, 31, of Hendersonville, pleaded guilty in Henderson County Criminal Superior Court on Aug. 13 to statutory sexual offense of a person…