Former SD pastor convicted of child abuse gets 3 years

Press & Dakotan
October 20, 2015

http://www.yankton.net/news/state_ap_sd/article_f44c05d2-f85c-5c84-aefc-a52a80ac90d8.html

CANTON, S.D. (AP) — A former South Dakota pastor who authorities accused of having sex with a teenager has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Fifty-year-old Tony Haglund earlier pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse. The Argus Leader (http://argusne.ws/1Go9j5g ) reports Haglund was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine or up to that amount in restitution to the family of his victim.

Haglund was indicted last year on three counts of sexual penetration by a psychotherapist, sexual contact with a child under 16 and sexual contact by a psychotherapist. He was arrested on October 2014 in Florida, where he worked as a real estate agent.

Authorities say the contact with a then-15-year-old girl occurred between January 2011 and December 2013. He was a pastor at Canton Lutheran Church for part of that time.