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A former metro youth pastor was sentenced Monday morning for sexual abuse.
Twenty-seven-year old Ryan McKelvey asked the judge for a suspended sentence and apologized to his victims.
“I hate what I did, I hate the situations that I was in, I hate how I used pain and hard times to rationalize and justify my actions,” McKelvey told the judge.
Mckelvey was found guilty of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation by a counselor.
Police say McKelvey had inappropriate sexual relations with two teenage girls during his time as a youth pastor at Heritage Assembly of God Church in Des Moines.
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