The harm ‘could never be undone’: Nampa man sentenced for child sex crime
A Nampa man was sentenced to up to life in prison this month after pleading guilty to one of nine child sex-crime charges filed against him.
Michael Shane Inglis, 53, does have a possibility of getting out on parole, however, after serving 18 years, 3rd District Judge Gabriel McCarthy decided.
Inglis was charged in October 2025 with eight counts of aggravated lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 12 and one count of producing child sexually exploitive material. All of the charges involved children who were known to Inglis, according to the case’s affidavit of probable cause.
Inglis pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated lewd conduct in January; the rest of the charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. McCarthy handed down the sentence on that crime on April 8.
Last October, the Nampa Police Department said it received a call about a sexual assault incident involving minors in a Nampa home, the affidavit said. The caller told police that they observed Inglis in bed with a child, according to the court document.
Police said they interviewed the witness, the child and Inglis, and the affidavit said police obtained consent to search Inglis’ phone, where they found multiple videos and photos of children estimated to be between 4 and 10 years old.
Inglis was taken into custody, and during a police interview, he identified multiple different children in the material and stated that he took the photos and videos, the affidavit said. Three of the children were included in the charges filed against Inglis, who told police that he believed there were 10 to 15 different incidents occurring between July and October 2025, according to court documents.
The case’s criminal complaint stated that Inglis was “in a position of trust or power and used the position of trust of power to accomplish the lewd conduct.”
A Nampa police news release said that during sentencing, the judge said that the harm caused by Inglis was so severe, “it could never be undone.” McCarthy also said Inglis’ apologies and promise to do better in the future “didn’t mean anything in these cases.”
