COEUR d'ALENE - A 19-year-old Kingston man is scheduled to be sentenced for sexual abuse of a child on May 16 in 1st District Court in Coeur d'Alene.

Reid L. Yergler was to be sentenced Wednesday by District Court Judge John Mitchell, but the decision was delayed in the Shoshone County case.

Defense lawyer Rick Baughman and Kootenai County deputy prosecutor Josh Studor asked the court for more time to review a psychosexual evaluation that was recently completed on Yergler.

Yergler was arrested Nov. 25 and charged with two counts of lewd conduct, but in a plea deal he agreed to be sentenced for sexual abuse of a child. The victim was a 5-year-old Kellogg girl.

Yergler is the son of a Gary Yergler, a Kellogg police officer, and also is the nephew of Shoshone County Commissioner Larry Yergler.

Studor is handling the prosecution because of the Shoshone County prosecutor's relationship with Yergler's family.

Part of the sentencing hearing was conducted on Wednesday in Coeur d'Alene as the mother and father of the victim gave victim-impact statements.

The victim's father told the court, "These are things that no kid should ever have to experience."

The father, looking right at Yergler, said Yergler was trusted and loved by the victim before the sexual abuse.

"You took so much from her," the father said. "You need to be behind bars. ... There's no excuse for what you've done."

Somebody from Yergler's family, likely his parents, will speak when the sentencing hearing continues on May 16. Mitchell will then decide on the sentence.