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	Former Priest Sentenced to 5 to 15 Years Observer-Dispatch June 6, 2006 http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS/60606005 UTICA - A defrocked priest was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison today in Oneida County Court for approaching two young teens to pose for naked pictures in Rome last summer. In March, a jury found James Tamburrino, 38, of Pillmore Drive, Rome, guilty of using a child in a sexual performance, attempting to use a child in a sexual performance, possessing a sexual performance by a child and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Tamburrino had argued during his trial that he never realized how young one of the 15-year-old boys was when he took sexually explicit pictures of him. Tamburrino also was previously defrocked from the Carmelite religious order in 2001 after sex-related allegations were made against him in the Bronx.
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