A 38-year-old Gresham man was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy.

Brian Matthew Cort abused the son of a family friend, a Multnomah County jury found. He was convicted of first-degree sodomy and two counts of sexual abuse in the first-degree.

The assault occurred Sept. 6, 2020, when Cort picked up the then-11-year-old boy to take him kayaking on the Columbia River. Cort took the boy to his home and sexually assaulted him, prosecutors said.

The boy later told his father what had happened, prosecutors said. The father called police, and prosecutors said DNA analysis of the boy’s clothing supported his statements about the abuse.

“The defendant took advantage of a young child who trusted him, for his own selfish desires,” Multnomah County Depu

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