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	Former Sunland Pastor Gets 32-year Prison Sentence in Molestation Case Contra Costa Times August 7, 2008 http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_10130776?nclick_check=1 SAN FERNANDO - A former Sunland church pastor who molested two girls was sentenced today to 32 years and four months in state prison. Joseph Gary Torres, 48, whose sentence was handed down by a San Fernando Superior Court judge, was convicted June 26 of 11 counts, including continuous sexual abuse, oral copulation of a minor and sodomy by use of force. The girls attended Iglesia Bautista Reformada, where the defendant was a pastor. One of the girls was molested beginning in July 2000 -- when she was 12 or 13 -- until August 2006, while the other was 14 when the abuse began in July 2005 and continued through August 2006, according to the District Attorney's Office. Torres was arrested in September 2006 by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Juvenile Division, and has remained jailed since then.
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