HOUSTON (TX)
ABC 13
By The Associated Press
(8/03/05 - HOUSTON) — A former Catholic Church choir director was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three brothers over the past decade.
Stuart Murphy, 57, pleaded guilty Tuesday to five felony sexual abuse charges.
The judge sentenced Murphy to 30 years on each of two aggravated sexual assault charges and 20 years on each of three indecency with a child charges. He will serve the sentences concurrently and will be eligible for parole after 15 years.
Murphy met the victims at Annunciation Catholic Church in Houston, where he began working in 1993. He befriended the boys and their family and began molesting the oldest child 10 years ago when he was 12 and the youngest when he was 6, prosecutor Denise Oncken said.