Victims in the child abuse case of an ex-Nevada Department of Corrections officer spoke to a judge Monday about the betrayal of trust and lasting trauma they felt.

“The things that happened should never happen to a child,” one told the judge.

The other victim said, “Being violated by the defendant has stuck with me with flashbacks and night terrors up until now.”

He added: “I know, despite the sentencing, that I’ll still live in the current fear I live in: that he could come get, hurt or violate me in any way despite me being bigger and stronger than I was then as a young child. Ever since it happened, I was trapped by a fear: the fear if I told, it would get worse.”

After hearing from the victims and others, District Judge Tina Talim sentenced Derland Blake, 41, to probation and 728 d

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