Child Molesters, Child Abuse Effects: Bulimia, Eating Disorders, Addictions

Each conviction carries a minimum sentence of six years and three months in prison.

Judge John McCormick required that Sullivan serve the full 75 months on the first count.

On the second count, Sullivan will serve 30 months consecutive to the first 75, and 45 months will be served concurrently.

McCormick said deciding whether or not to have Sullivan serve the prison time consecutively or concurrently was not a decision he took lightly.

Giving the sentences consecutively would be unfair to the defendant, McCormick said, and giving the sentences concurrently would be unfair to the victim.

Sullivan will also be required to register as a sex offender once he is released from prison.

Prior to the sentencing, Deputy District Attorney De Ann Ferrari told the judge the situation required Sullivan serve the full 150 months.

Ferrari told the judge that the victim in this case is "one of the most vulnerable victims imaginable," because of her age and the relationship between her and Sullivan.

"He abused a position of trust not only as a father but as a spiritual leader and an adult," Ferrari told the judge.

The victim's mother read from a handwritten note to the court saying, "nothing can take away the pain this man has caused."

Sullivan's attorney, J. Mark Lawrence of McMinnville, told the judge there were "extraordinary lengths Sullivan went to to protect his daughter."

Lawrence explained that Sullivan had spoken with many people about his concern that his daughter may have been molested.

He set boundaries by asking his wife to be in the same room when he and his daughter were together, Lawrence said. Sullivan also told his daughter that nothing was her fault.

Sullivan nodded his head in agreement while Lawrence conveyed a message for him.

Lawrence told the judge that Sullivan wanted to make sure his daughter knew nothing about this was her fault. Her father was going to prison, but that is not her fault, Lawrence said.

Sullivan stood before the judge and said there were lots of things going through his mind. "The thing I really want to say ... if she (my daughter) will accept this, ‘I love her.'"

Sullivan added, "I am deeply sorry for anything I may have done to make her feel uncomfortable or afraid."

The defense said it plans to file at least one motion following Monday's sentencing.

A hearing for those motions has been set for 10:30 a.m. Feb. 23