Lewisburg man sentenced to up to 25 years for child sexual assault

Michael Leon Baker, 50, of Lewisburg was sentenced in Greenbrier County Circuit Court to consecutive one‑to‑five year terms on five counts of third‑degree sexual assault, creating a possible aggregate prison term of five to 25 years followed by 50 years of extended supervision. WVVA reported the sentencing as occurring February 12, 2026 and National Today published a matching account on Feb. 13, 2026.

Court paperwork reported by WVVA and summarized by National Today specifies that Baker was convicted on counts numbered 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. The court ordered that the sentences for Counts 1, 3 and 5 be served in prison, with the sentences for Counts 7 and 9 to be served through monitored home confinement after completion of prison terms. According to the indictment as reported, the charges stem from incidents alleged to have occurred between Jan. 1, 2005, and Dec. 31, 2006, and allege Baker engaged in sexual intercourse with a male child under the age of 16 at the time of the offenses.

The case file credits Deputy Alex Workman of the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department with the investigation and Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ryan Blake with the prosecution. Greenbrier County Prosecuting Attorney Nicole Campbell “expressed appreciation for the work done on the case,” National Today reported, praising the investigative and prosecutorial effort that led to conviction and sentence.

At the same time, an incomplete Original Report supplied to this newsroom contains details that conflict with the Greenbrier County account. That report describes a sentencing on March 5, 2026 in a Lewisburg courtroom after a defendant entered a no‑contest plea to a felony statutory sexual‑assault count involving an 11‑year‑old boy and states that Union County Judge Michael Piecuch imposed a state‑prison sentence. The Original Report is truncated and does not include a defendant name or full sentence language, so it is not yet clear whether the March 5 Union County entry and the Feb. 12 Greenbrier County sentencing are separate matters or different accounts of the same case.

WVVA’s page excerpt also contains an isolated line, “Police say the child was only 20‑months‑old,” that appears on the same page but is not explicitly tied to the Baker coverage; that line should not be treated as part of the Baker indictment without record confirmation. Given the discrepancies in dates, court names and victim ages across the sources, public court records should be obtained to reconcile the accounts.

To fully verify the record, reporters should obtain the Greenbrier County Circuit Court docket and sentencing minute entry for Feb. 12, 2026; the indictment and sentencing order for the Baker matter; and Union County docket entries for March 5, 2026 listing Judge Michael Piecuch. Confirmation from the Greenbrier County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and defense counsel will be necessary to clarify whether the Baker conviction described by WVVA and National Today is the same case referenced in the truncated March 5 report.