FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By Amy Pavuk, Orlando Sentinel
5:18 p.m. EST, January 28, 2014
A former missionary for the Sanford-based New Tribes Mission was sentenced to 58 years in federal prison Tuesday for sexually abusing girls who were part of an indigenous tribe in the Amazon and filming the acts.
Authorities said Warren Scott Kennell befriended and abused girls over a several-year period, while he was establishing a church with the Katookeena tribe.
Homeland Security Investigations agents began investigating the 45-year-old after receiving a tip that he posted pictures on a website used by people who trade child pornography.
When Kennell traveled from Brazil to Orlando in May, agents stopped and searched him at the airport.
Agents found several thumb drives and an external hard drive, and investigators located child pornography on the devices.
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