COVINGTON, Ga. – A former sheriff’s deputy convicted of child molestation in Newton County Superior Court last week was sentenced to spend at least the next 25 years in prison this morning at the Judicial Center in downtown Covington. Alcovy Judicial Circuit Judge Horace J. Johnson sentenced Daniel McGinnis to life, with the first 25 years to be served in prison for aggravated child molestation and incest. McGinnis also received 20 years, with 19 years to be served in confinement for four counts of child molestation.