LOVELAND (CO)
Coloradoan
A former Loveland church volunteer and toy store owner promised an iPad upgrade, and trips to Disneyland and Elitch Gardens before sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, the victim said in court.
“You are the most disgusting person I ever met in my life,” she said while standing at the lectern, sobbing softly. “You are really screwed up, and someone had to stop you.”
Robert Ernest Kirchhoff, 54, of Loveland was sentenced to two years in jail and 10 years to life of in-tensive sex-offender probation for grabbing the girl by the wrist and sexually assaulting her for 20 minutes in late January. He had been babysitting the girl as she was at his home to visit his 12-year-old daughter the night of Jan. 27.
8th Judicial District Judge Julie Field gave him the maximum sentence under a plea agreement that the victim’s family said they supported. She said Kirchhoff’s “profound grooming behavior” and posses-sion of child pornography, along with his history of domestic violence, were taken into account.
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