The Maine Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a lengthy prison sentence for a man convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl over a four-year period.

Matthew M. Fleury, 39, formerly of Damariscotta, had appealed his September 2007 sentence to the law court.

Justice S. Kirk Studstrup imposed a term of 32 years in prison, then suspended all but 17 years of it.

Fleury was convicted by a Lincoln County jury in July 2007 of a total of 112 charges of gross sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact and sexual abuse of a minor, all involving the same victim who was younger than 14 when the abuse began.

The offenses occurred in Jefferson, Waldoboro, Wiscasset and Damariscotta between November 2001 and April 2005.