photo by: Douglas County Sheriff’s Office

Mark B. Lee

A man began serving 60 days of “shock time” Tuesday as part of his punishment for a pair of felonies against a 14-year-old girl two years ago.

The man, Mark B. Lee, was originally charged with rape, indecent liberties with a child and aggravated intimidation of a witness connected to incidents in the spring of 2024. Those charges were amended to aggravated battery and aggravated intimidation of a witness as part of a plea deal in June with the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.

In addition to the shock time, Lee received a 62-month combined sentence for the two offenses, which Judge Amy Hanley — at the recommendation of both the state and the defense — suspended to three years of probation. Hanley said she relied heavily on the parties’ joint recommendations, noting that they knew the strength of the evidence and the history of negotiations best. She particularly found compelling the state’s support for a departure to probation. She noted that Lee’s waiver of his appeal rights as well as agreeing to automatically serve his prison time if he violated the terms of his probation even slightly were important factors in her sentence.

As the Journal-World reported, the teen girl, who did not participate in Tuesday’s sentencing, testified in May 2025 that Lee sexually assaulted her multiple times and attempted to bribe her to change her story.

Once her mother found out about the reported assaults and the police became involved, she said, Lee and his siblings confronted her to try to coerce her into changing her story. The girl recorded the conversation and turned it over to investigators.

In the recording, played in court at that hearing last year, they offered to buy the girl something or give her money if she lied to the police.

The girl can be heard on the recording saying that she didn’t want Lee to go to prison and “I will stop working with them (police) and giving them things, but I won’t lie about something that happened.”

Lee’s two siblings were also charged with witness intimidation and received diversions in their cases, court records indicate.

Lee did not speak at Tuesday’s hearing, nor did anyone from his side of the courtroom — except for one individual who yelled “Bullshit!” after Hanley pronounced her sentence. Hanley threatened to hold anyone making further outbursts in contempt, and soon after she cleared the courtroom as Lee was handcuffed and taken into custody.

In addition to the two months of shock time, Lee must complete a sex offender treatment program and have no unsupervised contact with minor children, among other probation conditions. He also must pay $600 in various costs and fees.

Hanley told Lee that the psychosexual evaluation she ordered was “extremely important.”

“There are problems for which you need help,” she said.