Florida Missionary Sentenced to 58 Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing Indigenous Girls in Amazon

By Lee Moran
New York Daily News
January 30, 2014

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/missionary-sentenced-sexually-abusing-girls-amazon-article-1.1596392

Warren Kennell has been sentenced to 58 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of production of child pornography

A Florida-based Christian missionary will spend the next 58 years behind bars after being busted sexually abusing young indigenous girls in the Amazon.

Warren Scott Kennell also filmed his sick sex acts which he secretly carried out as he tried to set up a church with the remote Katukina tribe in Brazil.

The 45-year-old, who worked for the Sanford-based New Tribes Mission, at first befriended the youngsters.

Then, after gaining their trust, he abused them over a number of years.

Homeland Security Investigations started looking into Kennell after getting tipped off that he'd posted pictures on a website that let people trade in child porn.

The 45-year-old Christian missionary worked for the New Tribes Mission in Sanford, Fla.

He was arrested in May 2013 after arriving at Orlando Airport from Brazil, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Cops found more than 940 child porn images on his computer's hard drive.

He admitted he was the figure abusing a young girl in one of the images and also confessed to photographing a second girl.

Kennell pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography.

During sentencing Tuesday, he apologized to his victims and his family by saying: "I've hurt a lot of people."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Davis Wilson said he had "abused his position as a missionary in the most horrendous way."