A Kirkland man sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping, molesting and beating a 6-year-old boy in 2001 will now be serving nine years less, thanks to a re-sentencing on Friday.

An appeals court ordered that Richard Allen Dunn, 48, be re-sentenced due to a change in state sentencing standards last year. Dunn’s sentence was reduced from an exceptional sentence of 30 years to 21 years during a re-sentencing hearing in King County Superior Court.

Dunn was initially convicted of first-degree kidnapping, first-degree child molestation and six counts of possession of child pornography in 2004.

According to court records, Dunn kidnapped a six-year-old from an apartment complex in the Kingsgate neighborhood in 2001 and took him to his apartment where he tied him up with rope and beat him repeatedly with a belt. Police later found the boy in Dunn’s bed with his hands bound.

During a search of Dunn’s home, detectives found approximately 63,000 pornographic images, the majority of which were images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to court documents.

Dunn’s criminal history includes a 1985 conviction for indecent assault and battery in Massachusetts.