The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld most of the convictions Thursday of a Grand Junction man who was one of six nabbed as part of a child sex sting operation in Frederick J.
Norris, 57, was convicted in Mesa County court on seven counts: internet luring of a child, attempted sexual assault of a child, attempted distribution of marijuana or marijuana concentrate to a minor, attempted contribution to the delinquency of a minor, soliciting for child prostitution, pandering of a child and a habitual sexual offender against children as an enhancer.
For all that, Norris was sentenced to a total of 87 years, but because some of his convictions are to run concurrently, his sentence comes down to 37 years to life with the possibility of parole.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court unanimously upheld all of those convictions except for the pandering charge, which involves offering money to a child to practice prostitution.
That sting operation nabbed five others, with either FBI agents or local police detectives posing as minors, and responding to advertisements listed on the website Craigslist. According to court records, some of the men posted lurid personal ads on the website, which law enforcement officials responded to posing as male or female year-olds.
