A man who sexually abused two young boys he met while serving as a volunteer bus driver for a church was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Jory Leedy, of Franklin, had pleaded guilty in June 2019 on the day his trial was due to start.
Authorities said he is a registered sex offender who had provided the victims’ parents with a false name.
Leedy met the boys when they were around 7 and 8 years old. The children and their mother rode the bus to the church on Sundays, and Leedy soon ingratiated himself into the family.
Leedy soon stopped volunteering as a bus driver but began going to the family’s home on a nightly basis. He began buying the boys clothes and games and took them on several trips, including to Disney World.
He also arranged for the family to buy a car, helped enroll the boys in a private school and paid part of the family’s rent for a home that was owned by a friend of his.
Leedy’s true identity and sex offender status was discovered after an altercation with the boys’ father in which police were called.
