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A Missouri man who worked with youth at a Harlan, Iowa church in the late 90’s has been sentenced for sexually abusing boys in Pottawattamie County during that time period.
Sixty-eight-year-old Bob Ervin Smith was sentenced by Judge Steensland in Pottawattamie County Court on Monday to 20 years in prison for 3 counts of 3rd degree sexual abuse and one count of indecent contact with a child. It’s up to the parole board as to whether or not he’ll serve the full sentence.
According to an affidavit acquired by Channel 6 News, the victim was 12-years-old going into the 7th grade in 1998. That’s when Smith took him away from the town of Harlan, Iowa to go on a fishing trip.
The affidavit notes Smith was the youth coordinator at the First Baptist Church in Harlan back in 1998.
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