WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to three life terms for 25 felony sex crimes with six children.

41-year-old Damian Isaac Hallacy is appealing the sentence ordered Wednesday.

The investigation started in 2017 after a man found sexual messages from Hallacy on his wife’s phone. The probable cause affidavit says the woman sexually abused her 8-year-old daughter at Hallacy’s request, and investigators found photos of the abuse on her phone.

The woman is expected to be sentenced next month. Her plea agreement called for her to testify against Hallacy and receive a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

Authorities are not naming her to protect the identity of her daughter because the girl is a victim of a sex crime.