The Sundance co-founder sentenced to 6 years in sex abuse case
A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced a movie whose lead actress won an Oscar in the mid-1980s was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison afterThe judge who delivered the sentence of six years to life said that he hopes the parole board will keep 72-year-old Sterling Van Wagenen in prison longer than the minimum.
The sister of the victim, whose name The Associated Press is withholding because she is a victim of sexual abuse, read a letter on her sister's behalf blasting Van Wagenen for lying and being a coward. Van Wagenen co-founded a Utah film festival that came to be known as Sundance Film Festival with Robert Redford and was the Sundance Institute's founding executive director, but hasn't been with the organization for more than 20 years.
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