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	Ex-Thousand Oaks Baptist Pastor Sentenced for Molesting Girl Associated Press, carried in Mercury News March 28, 2007 http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5539612?nclick_check=1 Thousand Oaks, Calif. — A former pastor who pleaded guilty to molesting a student at a church-run school in the 1980s has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison. Shortly after being sentenced Tuesday, William Alan Malgren, 52, collapsed in a holding cell and had to be revived. Malgren was arrested in March for sexually abusing the girl at church events and on church school grounds in 1988 and 1989. At the time, Malgren was a pastor at the Thousand Oaks Baptist Church school and the girl was a student there. She is now a woman in her 30s. The ex-pastor admitted to sexually abusing the girl when she was 7 or 8, but statutes kept prosecutors from charging Malgren with crimes that occurred before she was 14 years old. Earlier this year, Malgren tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea, but Superior Court Judge Bruce Clark ruled that Malgren pleaded guilty "freely and voluntarily" to multiple counts of lewd acts on a child. Information from: Ventura County Star, http://venturacountystar.com
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