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	SoCal Church Volunteer Faces 141 Years to Life for Child Molest Associated Press, carried in San Jose Mercury News September 22, 2007 http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6971179?nclick_check=1 Riverside, Calif.—A former Riverside County church volunteer who molested three boys was sentenced to 141 years to life in prison. Jeffrey Randolph Wright, 47, of Hemet, was sentenced Friday in a French Valley courtroom. "This is an individual who took advantage of being in a position of trust," Judge Judith Clark said. Prosecutors said Wright was working with a youth group at Shepherd's House Church of the Nazarene in San Jacinto in 2005 when he abused the boys, who were 12 and 13 years old. At the sentencing, one boy said he contemplated suicide because of the abuse. "I put a gun to my head. I was so close to pulling the trigger," the boy said. Wright was convicted in August of nine counts of sexually abusing the boys and distributing child pornography. Wright declined to make a statement on his own behalf at the hearing. He was acquitted of child sexual abuse charges in San Diego County in 1994.
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