NEW YORK/PENNSYLVANIA
Daily News
By SCOTT DESMIT
SDESMIT@BATAVIANEWS.COM
PUBLISHED: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A former pastor of a Lyndonville church serving a 15-year prison term for molesting girls was sentenced for similar charges in a Pennsylvania court last week.
Roy Harriger, 73, was sentenced to two-to-five years in prison for molesting a young girl in Mercer County.
The assaults took place while Harriger was serving as pastor of Mercer Community Church from 1991-97.
Harriger had been charged with rape, statutory sexual assault, deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault.
Unlike in New York, where Harriger vehemently denied molesting two granddaughters and took the case to trial, he admitted guilt before trial.
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