HONOLULU — A Lihue man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday, plus a lifetime period of supervised release, for four counts of manufacturing child
pornography, in U.S. District Court in Honolulu.
Michael J. Terui, Lihue, will also be required to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty to the offenses on Dec. 12.
Kenji M. Price, U.S. attorney for the District of Hawaii, said that according to court documents and information presented in court, Terui, 38, repeatedly sexually abused numerous young children, ranging in age from 7 to 13, over a period of more than a decade.
Fifteen minor victims have been identified. Terui acted as an outreach resource for his father’s church, which held services in the homes of members of the congregation and offered outreach programs to families that lacked a father figure in the home, according to a press release.
Terui would often host “sleepovers” and other gatherings at his residence, where he kept video games and movies, which he used to “groom” the children and gain their trust, the release said.
“Church members and other parents would entrust their children to Terui’s care,” the release said.
Terui engaged in sex acts with the children, often while they were sleeping (or pretending to sleep). Terui recorded his conduct using hidden and handheld digital video cameras. Terui also lured his child victims on vacations in an effort to bond with them and use them for his sexual gratification, according to the release.
Digital storage media found at Terui’s house contained 77 child pornographic video files and 690 child pornographic images.
During the sentencing, Chief United States District Court Judge J. Michael Seabright commented that Terui’s conduct was “shocking, abhorrent, callous, and devastating,” and told Terui that he had “left a trail of pain through what you’ve done.” Seabright said that this was the “worst type of breach of trust possible.”
In imposing the 25-year sentence, Seabright noted several aggravating factors, the release said, including that Terui had groomed the children to gain their trust; taken advantage of his position in the church in order to gain access to the children; and engaged in the egregious sexual abuse over a period of more than 10 years.
Seabright also highlighted that Terui had recorded the abuse of the children in order to use the recordings for his future sexual gratification. Four parents of the minor victims participated in the sentencing. The parent of one victim told Terui that he was a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and accused him of “hiding behind the ministry.”
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Marc A. Wallenstein.
While in no way proposing to defend such behaviors, for a rational and fair minded scientific journal discussion of the issues in this news story, Google “Effects on Boy-Attracted Pedosexual Males of Viewing Boy Erotica”
Regarding “harm,” Google “The Missing Mechanism of Harm”
You can also Google “Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal:”
For a scientific journal discussion of “Willingness,” especially as it relates to boys, Google “boyandro” or “The Role of Androphilia in the Psychosexual Development of Boys”.
A downloadable 94 page book is available free by Googling “Beyond Hysteria: Boy Erotica on the Internet.”
For an even more in-depth examination, Google “Myths of Childhood Sexuality”
IMO there is no need to read books in order to discuss and understand the threats and dangers of child rape. People who abuse and rape children and then make/produce exploitative images/videos are dangerous pedo-sadists aka child predators. There is no cure for pedosadists. They should be chemically castrated and spend the rest of their life in jail IMO. As the article states,the child predator abused his ministry position to groom and rape/molest/abuse minors. He made illegal and exploitative images documenting his abuse-all of this created a painful trail of abuse which fprever altered and changed the lives of the victims,something that cannot be undone. Because there is no way to remove the permanent mark that is left with a victim of child rape and abusive exploitation, I believe the only fair course of legal action against a pedpsadist is castration and life in jail without chance of release,no possibility of parole and also a financial debt to all victims
Public castration!!!!
Only goes to show the fallacy and brain-washing techniques used by religious chapters to abuse not only children, but their ignorant parents in believing some mickey mouse non-existent “god” because they are delusional and have no one else to blame but themselves for “trusting” these pedophile priest and clergy men of the “holy cloth”!
What would Jesus do? Clearly this is a lost soul. Instead of punishing why not help. It’s the noble way.
Why weren’t the parents charged with criminal child neglect? Every sane parent knows you can’t trust “men of god” with children.
I saw a video of an execution of a man who had raped a 5 yr old. It was from a ME country. He was dragged to a street where people surrounded the execution. A police officer (or a member of the military) then proceeded to shoot the man several times in the back of the head. Barbaric justice to a barbaric act.