He is expected to serve 20 years, to run concurrently with the federal time. His case was featured twice on “America’s Most Wanted.”įreeman also pleaded guilty to three Benton County charges of child rape in December. He was arrested in May 2007 in Hong Kong. Now a 19-year-old college student, she did not disclose the abuse until she told her mother in November 2005.įreeman, a computer adviser, bodybuilder and former reserve sheriff’s deputy in Benton County in southeast Washington, fled the U.S. The abuse began in 2000, when the girl was 10. I promised myself as an abused child never to be like the person who abused me,” he said. “The sin that I did and the pain that I caused my daughter can never be undone.
He agreed then to serve 50 years in prison.įreeman briefly choked back tears Wednesday as he apologized to his daughter and her family. District Court Judge Lonny Suko told Kenneth John Freeman that only he is to blame for the “heinous offense.”įreeman, 46, pleaded guilty in December to federal charges of production of child pornography and interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of unlawful sexual activity. A federal judge imposed a 50-year prison sentence Wednesday on a former reserve sheriff’s deputy who raped his daughter and posted videos of the abuse online before fleeing the country.
