PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Matt Miller | mmiller@pennlive.com
on July 17, 2013
HARRISBURG — Former Harrisburg church deacon Albert Chambers Jr. is being freed from prison, but he won’t escape his past as a child molester.
That was assured Wednesday when Dauphin County Judge Andrew H. Dowling branded Chambers as a sexually violent predator for abusing and taking explicit photos of two teenage girls he met through Antioch Tabernacle Church.
That designation under the state’s Megan’s Law means Chambers, 49, will have to register with police for life. And the cops will tell his neighbors about his crimes.
Yet Chambers, who worked with the church’s youth group, told Dowling that he’s not the same man who was arrested for those crimes nearly two years ago.
“I’ve gotten myself pretty much straightened out,” he said. “I want to be an asset and help people.”
Chambers pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and counts of indecent assault, corruption of minors, unlawful contact with minors and furnishing alcohol to minors in October.
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