WOODSTOCK – A former Algonquin man was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison for several sex offenses involving a then-12-year-old girl.

A jury in July found Raymond M. Kasper, 49, guilty on six of seven charges against him: three of four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and three counts of criminal sexual abuse.

The girl told her school guidance counselor and police that Kasper touched her in a sexual manner on several occasions last year. But after the girl met with her mother, Kasper’s attorney and Kasper’s sister, she recanted her story and said it all had been a dream.