A n attorney has been disbarred by the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board as a result of a felony conviction.

The Ludington Daily News reported 

The father of a boy assaulted at age 12 wept as he described two sexual assaults on his child in graphic detail in 51st Circuit Court on Tuesday. He talked about stopping a third attempt and what the incidents have done to the victim and their family. He said he felt betrayed by his former close friend, confidant and hunting partner.

David James Anderson, 63, Lansing, was sentenced to six months in jail for attempted second-degree child abuse in 51st Circuit Court on Tuesday. He pleaded no contest to the charge earlier this year.

Anderson was originally charged with two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in alleged November 2014 assaults on a then-12-year-old boy at a Sheridan Township hunting camp.

“I’m scared to death for all the other 12-year-old little boys out there,” the victim’s father said. “They and their parents are going to get no warning that a sexual predator is out there. You are going to be out and golfing in a few weeks.”

The man said that the incidents have devastated his family, cut them off from friends and left them “ripped apart.”

“I do not have the strength to accomplish the smallest task around my house,” the man said. “I just keep crying and asking God to take this from (the victim).”

Mason County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Spaniola, in introducing the case, said the boy’s older brother brushed off an advance from Anderson in the year prior to the alleged assaults as well.

Spaniola said the man had taken the boys on overseas hunting trips, to theme parks and sporting events.

The boy’s father wondered out loud whether all that time together with the boys was just “grooming.”

Spaniola asked Judge Susan Sniegowski to sentence Anderson to the maximum under the plea agreement — six months.

Defense attorney Gary Springstead had asked that Anderson have modified probation guidelines so that he could continue to operate his wine and cigar business. He said the shame of resigning from the bar association and being put on a non-public sex offender list were both extremely difficult for his client.

He asked that Anderson be allowed to have probation only and no further jail time.

Judge Susan Sniegowski said that criminal sexual conduct and child abuse cases are extremely difficult and she said she was accepting the plea agreement to help the family.

“If I were not to accept this plea agreement, (negative effects of this) would continue, there would not be any quick resolution to this in any way,” Sniegowski said. “I don’t wish to prolong their suffering.”

(Mike Frisch)