CAPE GIRARDEAU — United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sentenced Shederic Anderson to 420 months in prison Wednesday.
The 46-year-old Poplar Bluff resident was found guilty in November 2019 of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse. Anderson also plead guilty in December 2018 to escape from custody.
On July 26, 2018, Anderson escaped from the Cydkam Center in Neelyville, according to a press release. Anderson signed out of the facility to go to work and never returned. Anderson later was arrested and was detained in the Dunklin County Jail. While in the Dunklin County Jail, he sexually assaulted another inmate. On Nov. 15, 2019, a jury found Anderson guilty for committing the assault on another inmate.
Anderson previously had been arrested by Poplar Bluff police on three different occasions for a counterfeit money operation in the late fall of 2016.
On Oct. 12, 2016, Anderson was arrested after police investigated a counterfeiting operation based out of the city’s Twin Towers apartments. A month later, Anderson was arrested for allegedly counterfeiting money after he and an accomplice passed a fake bill at the Southside Sinclair on South Broadway.
Anderson again was arrested in December 2016, less than a week after he posted bond on multiple felonies, including two forgery charges stemming from his earlier alleged counterfeiting activities in November and October. A tip led authorities to Anderson, and at the time of his arrest, he was found with burnt money, printers, bleaching agents and other items used in the manufacturing of counterfeit money.
At the time, Anderson had served 15 years of a 30-year sentence for murder, as well as spent time in prison for first-degree assault, felonious restraint and other violent crimes.
The latest case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Missouri State Highway Patrol, and Assistant United States Attorney Keith Sorrell handled the prosecution for the government.