OKLAHOMA
Tulsa World
By AMANDA BLAND World Staff Writer
A Tulsa pastor who was accused of lewd molestation was convicted of two counts and acquitted of seven Friday night.
A jury returned its verdicts against Damien Keith Bonner Sr., 33, who was charged with nine counts of lewd molestation, after deliberating until nearly 11 p.m. The jury recommended a 20-year prison term on one conviction and three years on the other.
Bonner testified for the better part of three hours Friday afternoon.
Prosecutors had charged him with molesting three teen parishioners on a total of nine occasions.
He was found guilty of having intercourse with a 14- to 15-year-old member of Galilee Baptist Church, 721 E. Pine St., in 2013 or 2014 as well as groping a girl of the same age whom he met when he was a youth pastor for Mount Zion Baptist Church, 419 N. Elgin Ave., in 2006.
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