KENTUCKY
Courier-Journal
Andrew Wolfson, @adwolfson September 6, 2016
Ending a child sex case called a “pit of horror,” a former Oldham County minister was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison, the maximum he could have gotten under a plea agreement.
Howard Key Chambers, who advertised online that he wanted to fulfill a “granddaddy babysitter fantasy,” admitted that he had allowed a 10-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him seven or eight times as the man who trafficked her looked on and took pictures.
“Howard Chambers subjected this young girl to repeated sexual abuse,” stated U.S. Attorney John Kuhn. “Acting with unfathomable selfishness, he chose to traumatize a child in favor of his own self-gratification. The goal of my office was to obtain the maximum sentence of incarceration that insured Chambers would never touch another child.”
Rob Eggert, one of Chambers’ lawyers, said he was disappointed by the sentence. Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. could have sentenced him to as little as 15 years.
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