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	Former Deacon Gets 20 Years in Sexual Abuse Case The Examiner May 16, 2008 http://www.examiner.com/a-1394249~Former_deacon_gets_20_years_in_sexual_abuse_case.html ROCKVILLE, Md. (Map, News) - A former deacon at a church in Montgomery County has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing two girls. Seventy-two-year-old Dan Stallings was sentenced Thursday in Rockville. Stallings was a deacon at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Silver Spring. He was arrested in December for the alleged abuse of a female relative in the 1960s and 1970s, beginning when the girl was 11-years-old. After his arrest, a second victim came forward and said Stallings had fondled her in 1997, when she was a teenager. Stallings pleaded guilty in March to five counts of incest and one count of a fourth-degree sexual assault. Defense attorney Thomas DeGonia said during the sentencing hearing that Stallings was filled with remorse and was seeking help for his sexual affliction.
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