8/7/13 - A former Livingston County man is appealing his prison sentence in a child sex abuse case at a residential center he operated in Haiti. Last week, a U.S District Court Judge imposed the maximum 165-year prison sentence sought by prosecutors for 68-year-old Matthew Andrew Carter of Brighton. He filed his appeal Monday with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal jury in Miami convicted Carter in February on five counts of traveling from Florida to Haiti for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity with minors, along with one count of attempting child sex tourism. Prosecutors said he targeted poor and vulnerable children who lived at the home he ran from 1995 through 2011. At sentencing, Carter disputed the credibility of victims who testified against him and questioned the lack of physical evidence presented during trial. (JM)
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