Former youth pastor sentenced to 3 years

ALABAMA
The Wetumpka Herald

Posted: Thursday, August 2, 2012

Kevin Taylor

Former Bethel Assembly of God youth pastor John A. Astorga, 37, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

While he was youth pastor at Bethel, he sexually abused two female parishioners of the church. One was less than 12 years old at the time of the other was more than 12 years old.

Both appeared before Circuit Court Judge Ben Fuller to speak before Astorga was sentenced.

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