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	Ex-Worker with Altar Boys Gets 6 Months in Prison Press Enterprise January 21, 1993 A Riverside man who worked with altar boys at two Riverside churches was sentenced Tuesday to six months in federal prison for transporting a young boy across state lines for sexual purposes, officials reported. Dennis Raymond Jost, 50, pleaded guilty to the single charge and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert M. Takasugi in Los Angeles. The judge also sentenced Jost to three years of probation and required that he not associate with anyone under the age of 21 during that time, said Special Agent Karen Gardner of the FBI office in Los Angeles. Jost faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. He was arrested May 14 on a federal indictment that alleges he took a Riverside boy to Tucson, Ariz., and Albuquerque., N.M., between July 14, 1990, and Aug. 5 1990, with the intent that the minor engage in sexual activity. Such activity violates laws of both states. At the time, Jost was working as a volunteer coordinator of altar boy services at Queen of Angels and St. Thomas Catholic churches in Riverside. He was suspended from that work when church officials learned of the federal charge pending against him. Church and federal officials have declined to state whether the charge against Jost involved an altar boy with whom he may have worked. A civil suit against Jost is pending, according to FBI officials.
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