COLORADO
The Denver Post
A 65-year-old man has been sentenced to a minimum of 24 years in prison for sexually assaulting four young men from 2002 through 2009.
The man, James Craig Bird, from Jefferson County, was a pilot for a church leader at the Heritage Christian Center when he first met the boys, three of whom are brothers.
Bird first cultivated a relationship with the boys and their mother by helping them financially.
According to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office, the man bought the boys expensive cars, motorcycles and season tickets to hockey games, and also provided them with drugs and alcohol.
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