The Region - News from June 16, 1985

Former Boy Scout leader Kenneth Steelmon, 25, of Westminster has been sentenced to 23 years in state prison by an Orange County Superior Court judge after a jury convicted him of 47 counts of sexually molesting young boys. Steelmon, according to testimony during his trial, committed a variety of sexual acts, including fondling, oral copulation and sodomy, with seven boys ranging in age from 7 to 15. Five of the boys were members of a Boy Scout troop he organized two years ago. Steelmon was a computer technician.