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	Church Attendant Gets 20 Years for Child Sex Abuse Interfax November 13, 2009 http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=6636 Ulyanovsk, November 13, Interfax - A court in Dimitrovgrad in the Ulyanovsk Region found an acolyte of a local church, aged 41, guilty of child sexual abuse and sentenced him to 20 years in prison, a court official told Interfax. "Eighteen episodes exposing him as a pedophile have been proven. The trial proceeded behind closed doors. Among his victims were five boys and one girl, aged from eight to eleven years old," he said. The suspect pleaded partially guilty. "He said that he would not reform after confinement and would again engage in child sexual abuse, and requested a life sentence," the official said. The court took into account the fact that the defendant had partially acknowledged his guilt and cooperated with investigators. The man will spend the first ten years in jail and the rest of the term in a maximum-security penal colony.
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