Former youth pastor gets 25 years for producing child porn
Apr 6, 2012, 4:32 PM | Updated: 6:05 pm
A former youth pastor has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for making child porn and posting it online.
Federal prosecutors say 45-year-old Michael Norris of Vancouver made many pornographic videos of a brother and sister he had also molested.
The parents of the children said they had trusted Norris because he had been a youth pastor at a Portland, Ore. church.
He was arrested in 2006 after Homeland Security officers discovered that he was sharing the videos online.
Norris was sentenced on Friday for the child porn convictions but the U.S. Attorney’s office says he’s expected to plead guilty to the molestation charges.
Prosecutors will ask that the sentences run concurrently, and upon his release he has been ordered to a “lifetime of supervised release.”
