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	Ex-Minister Given Lengthy Sentence in Child Porno Case The Associated Press, carried in al.com September 28, 2006 http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-24/ 1159444746144160.xml&storylist=alabamanews Montgomery, Ala (AP) — A former minister is headed to federal prison to begin serving a 22-year sentence for producing child pornography. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, said 40-year-old Garrett Dykes was sentenced yesterday in Montgomery federal court. He pleaded guilty in May to one charge of filming himself fondling an eight-year-old female in January 2005. Dykes also awaits an October 27th sentencing hearing in Elmore County after he entered a guilty plead last month to nine counts of sex abuse and four counts of production of obscene materials of people younger than 17. Elmore County prosecutors said the sex abuse plea involved three victims under the age of 12 who were molested in Dykes' home. Investigators said the abuse was videotaped. Dykes was removed as minister of Calvary Baptist Church in Wetumpka after his arrest in November 2004. On the state charge, Dykes faces ten years to life in prison on each pornography charge and one to ten years on each sexual abuse charge.
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