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S ERVING THE S ILVERTON A REA S INCE 1880 50 C ENTS ● A U NIQUE E DITION OF THE S TATESMAN J OURNAL V OL . 136, N O . 10 W EDNESDAY , F EBRUARY 22, 2017 SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM Pastor gets 10-year sentence Accused of sexually abusing teen girl for 3 years WHITNEY M WOODWORTH STATESMAN JOURNAL A former Silverton youth pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexu- ally abusing a teen girl over the span of three years. Andrew Stutzman, 38, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of second-degree sex abuse and was sentenced Monday in Marion County Circuit Court. Stutzman started a youth group with his wife and had frequent contact with teens, according to police. He also co- owned a local coffee shop before his ar- rest. Police began investigating Stutzman in June when the victim came forward. During the weeks-long investigation, Silverton police Detective Josh Boatner interviewed the victim, who said Stutz- man began the abuse when she was 16. Stutzman was a 34-year-old married father and church youth group leader when he met the teen. According to court documents, he engaged in a sexual rela- tionship more than 150 times with the victim. The victim told investigators the sex- ual contact was mutual — but for her age — until she tried to end the relationship in 2015 when she was 18. “...by then she had gone to college, grown up and realized how wrong the re- lationship was,” stated a memorandum filed in Marion County. Stutzman came over to her home and tried to have sex with her after she broke up with him. She said she told him “no” several times and began crying, but he still had sex with her. Afterward, he apologized and left. Shortly before he be- gan having sexual contact with the teen, Stutzman was arrested on a public indecency charge in Clackamas County. KATU Andrew News reported that some- Stutzman one witnessed Stutzman “committing a lewd act” in a car outside a coffee shop. Stutzman told police he had spilled coffee on his lap, but no cof- fee was found in his car. A jury convicted him of indecency in 2013, and he was sentenced to 15 days in See PASTOR, Page 2A CREEKSIDE CHAT Father-daughter events help spur familial bonds CHRISTENA BROOKS/SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE SCAN-TV multimedia assistant Abby Bennett, hired in September, signals junior Aidan Cook to start recording. Silverton students gain real-world TV experience CHRISTENA BROOKS SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE Silverton High School’s gymnasium is pulsating with a hundred overlap- ping sounds as the Lady Foxes warm up for a winter basketball game. Sneakers squeaking and basketballs thundering on the polished wooden floor. The pep band playing its jazzy en- couragement from the bleachers. The humming of conversation from ever corner. Everyone’s taut with anticipa- tion, ready for the matchup between Silverton and Independence. Sophomore Aidan Cook is prepping too, but so noiselessly that he and his equipment melt into the hubbub. Sit- ting in the narrow alley between the door and bleachers, he adjusts a video camera and checks the feeds coming in from three additional cameras sta- tioned around the gym. In the bleachers, junior Gabe Thompson, wearing headphones, flashes a smile while operating Camera 1. Farther up in the bleachers stands an- other “static,” or unmanned, camera. A fourth static camera is trained on the announcer’s desk. Tonight it’s Cook’s job to decide how TV audiences will see the game. Using a TriCaster, a hefty black appliance bristling with screens and buttons, he’ll spend the next one-and-a-half watching all camera feeds and picking the right one to broadcast at the right moment. He’s also managing sound and graph- ics, putting together the experience for JUSTIN MUCH/APPEAL TRIBUNE Silverton-raised Brent Satern, a representative with the local Country Financial office, is helping to organize the second “Daddy-Daughter Dance,” scheduled for the evening of Saturday, March 11, at Silverton High School. JUSTIN MUCH Next chat If the trajectory of Silverton’s budding ball for fathers and daughters takes flight like others of its ilk, sponsors may be seek- ing a new venue in the What: Creekside Chat coming years. But for now the 2nd Annual Silver- ton Rotary Daddy-Daughter Dance will be returning to Silverton High School, 6 to 9 p.m., on Saturday, March 11. For Silverton native Brent Satern the venue and the event make sense. A Country Financial representative, Brent stopped into Silver Creek Cof- fee House for a Creekside Chat on Wednesday, Feb. 14, to alert us to the festivity that he and some other Ro- Where: Silver Creek Coffee House, 111 Water St., Silverton When: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 (First and third Wednesdays) Questions and information: Contact Justin Much, jmuch@StatesmanJournal.com; 503-769-6338, cell 503-508-8157 tary members helped launch last year. With a 3-year-old daughter and an observation, the idea took hold of Brent quickly. “We saw a lot of other communi- ties smaller than Silverton doing this, and we thought ‘why not us?’” Among those is Stayton, where the 4-year-old Santiam Canyon Father Daughter Ball has twice outgrown its venue in that span, moving from Foothills Church to the Stayton Com- munity Center and finally to Stayton High School where some 350 attend- ed last year – the growing pains of popularity. Brent said Silverton’s first Daddy- Daughter outing drew 240, and plan- ners are prepared for potential bur- geoning popularity should it sprout. “That’s not a bad problem to have,” the father said with a welcoming smile. “We’ve talked to Stayton; we’ve talked to Redmond, and others (who have planned similar events), and we’ve stole the stuff that works See MUCH, Page 3A See TV, Page 2A Pot paraphernalia restrictions urged Online at SilvertonAppeal.com NEWS UPDATES PHOTOS » Breaking news » Get updates from the Silverton area » Photo galleries sites — could sell items defined as pot paraphernalia. “Kids will often purchase the paraphernalia under the premise of using it to smoke tobacco. Mari- juana paraphernalia should not be accessible to our children,” Hack said. Her bill would change the law so only people 21 and older can buy these items, and it would introduce fines of up to $2,000 for illegal Silverr ton B usiiness of t he Y ear 2 016 SOLD! Market Share SILVERTON/MT. 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