FBI — Boy Scout Camp Director Sentenced to 95 Years for Distributing, Possessing, And Attempting to Produce Child Pornography. Parallel to Joel Hochmuth, WELS Director of Communications

FBI — Boy Scout Camp Director Sentenced to 95 Years for Distributing, Possessing, and Attempting to Produce Child Pornography:


GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Scott Allan Herrick, 40, of Twin Lakes, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 95 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. Herrick surreptitiously videotaped boys as they were dressing in the boys’ locker room in the YMCA in Muskegon and kept a massive collection of 100,000 images of child pornography with him at the Gerber Boy Scout Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan. He was convicted at trial of three counts of attempting to produce child pornography. On the first day of trial, Herrick pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.


The Honorable Paul L. Maloney, Chief U.S. District Judge, presided over the trial and sentencing. He considered Herrick’s assertion at sentencing that he had no sexual interest in children to be preposterous. Judge Maloney commented that the seriousness of the crimes cannot be overstated and that the lengthy sentence reflected his desire to protect the community from further acts by Herrick. He recognized that by sentencing Herrick to 1140 months (95 years) of incarceration, Herrick would likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Should Herrick live long enough for release, he must serve the rest of his life on supervised release. The judge explained that the sexual exploitation of children by using institutions like the Boy Scouts and the YMCA “tears at the social fabric of our country.” Judge Maloney wanted to send a message to others who would use their positions of trust with children for sexual exploitation—“You will be punished severely.”


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