Youth Pastor to Be Sentenced for Sex Crimes

San Francisco Chronicle
July 26, 2012

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Youth-pastor-to-be-sentenced-for-sex-crimes-3737726.php

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A youth minister accused of sex crimes against children in three Alabama counties is scheduled to be sentenced in one case on July 31.

An Elmore County jury found John A. Astorga guilty on April 11 on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. Three victims and the pastor of Bethel Assembly of God in Wetumpka, where Astorga worked, testified at his trial.

Astorga faces up to a year and a day imprisonment on each of the two counts in Elmore County and must register as a convicted sex offender.

He was indicted June 22 by a Cullman County jury on one count of first-degree sexual abuse. A Madison County grand jury indicted Astorga in December 2010 on three counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

The 37-year-old is currently free on bond.