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A Salem pastor has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl.
Mauricio Aguilera-Garcia, 55, was arrested last summer on charges of rape, sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration charges.
Marion County Sheriff’s deputies say he met his victim at his church, Our Father’s House. That church rents space from the Solid Rock Community Church on Ward Drive NE in Salem.
Aguilera-Garcia was barely a day into his trial this week when he entered guilty pleas. The jury had heard emotional testimony from his victim, who is now an adult.
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