WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former worker at the Wichita YMCA was sentenced to 27½ years in prison for sexually assaulting two young children.

Twenty-two-year-old Caleb Gaston was sentenced Friday. He pleaded no contest in February to two counts of rape.

Authorities say in January 2018, Gaston sexually abused a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old in his care at the YMCA branch's Kid Zone. Police arrested him after the 4-year-old girl reported that he had hit her and then touched her inappropriately.

KAKE-TV reports that before sentencing, Gaston apologized and said he had never had legal troubles until he...