Dervin Mood
A 76-year-old Ypsilanti man on federal probation for child pornography was convicted Friday by an Oakland County jury in a sexual assault case, officials said.
Dervin Mood was found guilty of one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for an assault that took place in Orion Township, said Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper.
Mood likely will be sentenced to 51-106 months in prison on April 10, Cooper said.
The male victim is now an adult, but was younger when the incident took place, Cooper said. The man was not a stranger to Mood, who faces five similar charges in Washtenaw County related to the same victim, according to court records.
In that case, Mood is accused of sexually assaulting the victim between 2003 and 2011 at Mood's Ypsilanti home in the 900 block of Pleasant Drive when the man was 12, 15, 16 and 19 years old, according to court records. He is charged with three counts of first-degree CSC and two counts of second-degree CSC. Two of the CSC counts involve a mentally incapable victim, court records indicate. Cooper said the victim suffers from Asperger's syndrome.
Mood is on probation for a federal conviction on two counts of receipt of child pornography, which he pleaded guilty to in January 2009. Cooper said his conviction in the Oakland County case is bound to affect his federal probation, but it was not immediately known how.
The federal case had to do with child pornography on Mood's computer, the contents of which also became part of the two-week long Oakland County trial, Cooper said, including recordings and diary entries.
“It involved his proclivities,” Cooper added.
AnnArbor.com has previously reported Mood holds a master's degree in elementary education, once worked as a public school teacher and owned a child care center from 1975 to 1982.
The trial for the Washtenaw County case is set to begin April 29.
Mood remains in custody at the Oakland County Jail on a $75,000 cash bond, according to jail records.
John Counts covers cops and courts for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at johncounts@annarbor.com or you can follow him on Twitter.