WHITE PLAINS – A man convicted of the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old New York City girl was sentenced in Westchester county Court Thursday to 40 years to life in state prison.

William Davis, 47, had approached the child on December 28, 2006 on a street in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, aware that she had lost her cell phone. He told her he was a cop and offered to help her find the phone.

During the search, the girl got into Davis’ car. The phone was recovered and under the pretext of verifying the phone actually belonged to the girl, she was taken to the Ardsley Acres Motel in Westchester County where she was held against her will and raped.

Following an investigation, Davis was arrested.

He was found guilty in august 2007 of four counts each of predatory sexual assault and of predatory sexual assault against a child; one count of kidnapping in the second degree; two counts each of sexual abuse in the first and second degrees, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

This is the first time in Westchester that the predatory sexual assault and predatory sexual assault against a child statutes have been used in a prosecution.