Vancouver Man Sentenced to 35 Years for Child Rape

Seattle Pi
September 5, 2012

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Vancouver-man-sentenced-to-35-years-for-child-rape-3841013.php

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A former Bible camp counselor was sentenced Tuesday in Vancouver to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing two children he knew through church.

Forty-six-year-old Michael Scott Norris of Vancouver was convicted in July of child rape and molestation.

The Columbian reports (http://is.gd/3Lae5M) Norris was a volunteer pastor and counselor at Open Bible Church in Portland when he was arrested in 2006.

The case was delayed by a dispute over evidence and a separate federal prosecution of Norris for producing child pornography. He received a 25-year child pornography sentence that will be served at the same time as his state sentence for rape.