OREGON
The Oregonian/OregonLive
October 2, 2017
The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a pastor sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a girl who grew up in his Happy Valley church.
The court affirmed the conviction of Mike Sperou without opinion on Wednesday, records show. A Multnomah County jury convicted Sperou in 2015 on three counts of first-degree sexual penetration of a person under the age of 12, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He’s being held in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, and records list his earliest release date as December 27, 2032.
In 1997, seven girls complained that Sperou, co-founder of the North Clackamas Bible Community, had molested them. No charges were brought because the girls’ stories were inconsistent or vague. The allegations came on the heels of a split in the church, leading to the exit of several families.
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