A press release just now from the US Attorney's office in Seattle:
A Vancouver, Washington man who once volunteered as a youth pastor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 25 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. MICHAEL SCOTT NORRIS, 45, was arrested in 2006, after an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigation (ICE-HSI) revealed NORRIS was participating in child pornography distribution websites. When law enforcement searched NORRIS’ residence they discovered movies and images of young children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. NORRIS had made the images of two children. The children’s parents trusted NORRIS to spend time with their children, because he had been a youth pastor for a youth group at a Portland, Oregon church. At sentencing U.S. District Judge Robert L. Bryan said, “the most important part of the sentence was to protect the public.”
Jesus fucking baby Christ. How long will it take, as a society, until we collectively consider a man's past experience as a youth pastor to make him less trustworthy with our kids?
