MILLERSBURG, OH — As a clocktower bell tolled on Tuesday from somewhere in this small downtown, its muffled sound entering the third-floor courtroom, Judge Robert Rinfret was counting.
He was counting his own years of dealing with crime and punishment.
He was counting the near-maximum of nine years’ imprisonment that he was about to sentence former missionary Jeriah Mast for just a fraction of his confessed sexual offenses in two countries.
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