A Forest Lake man was sentenced last month to 12 years in prison for first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Timothy Gordon Deflorin, 62, was originally charged in late 2015 after allegations surfaced that he had repeatedly raped a young girl who was cared for at his wife’s day care center in the early 2000s.
Deflorin could be eligible for conditional release after five years.broadstreet.zone(48036);
According to court documents, a female in her late teens recalled the abuse after recent happenings triggered repressed memories of the abuse, which reportedly took place in the early 2000s at the day care center run by Deflorin’s wife, Debbie, in the 1500 block of 12th Street Southeast (Debbie Deflorin has since died). The teen told police the abuse, which lasted from when she was 2 years old to her fifth birthday, involved Deflorin taking her to his truck to have sex with her. The teen said that though
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