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Grand Rapids’ ABC affiliate reports:
A Muskegon County church leader, who attorneys say held a “secret obsession” with child pornography, learned how long he’ll spend in jail. Daniel Byron DeVries of Fruitport Township was sentenced to 4 to 10 years in prison Wednesday. DeVries was arrested back in March. He originally faced six felony counts, but pleaded guilty to two: one count of possession of child sexually abusive material and one count of using a computer to commit a crime. The other counts were dropped.
He held various roles in which he had contact with youth in the community through his work as a deacon at Unity Reformed Church in Norton Shores. DeVries also started and volunteered at an organization called Kids Hope Network, which runs a program with students at Churchill Elementary School. At the sentencing Wednesday morning, attorneys clashed over paperwork filed by DeVries’ defense that stated there were no victims in the case.
Read the full article. As you’ll see in the video, the judge was not having the claim that there were no victims. My October 2024 report on the guilty plea is here.
Michigan church deacon & Sunday school teacher, Daniel DeVries, has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for possessing images of children being sexually abused.
Church members wrote letters to the judge saying they would welcome him back with open arms into the community. pic.twitter.com/D3egMeYKQx
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