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Oregon religious leader convicted of child sexual abuse sentenced to 13 years in prison

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon religious leader convicted multiple times of sexually abusing a former church member when she was a child has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Michael Sperou was sentenced Tuesday for two counts of unlawful sexual penetration. Prosecutors declined to bring charges against Sperou in 1997 when seven people accused him of sex abuse but after revisiting, indicted him in 2014. By then, only one case was within the statute of limitations. Sperou’s first conviction was overturned because witnesses referred to the women as “victims.” His 2020 conviction was overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court banned non-unanimous verdicts.

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