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  Pastor Sentenced for Sexual Abuse of Teen

WMDT
July 28, 2007

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Ellicott City, Md. (AP) - The pastor of a Woodlawn church has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a boy.

Forty-one-year-old Gerald Griffith of Bowie was convicted in May of two counts of child sexual abuse and was sentenced yesterday in Howard County Circuit Court.

Griffith was a pastor at Redemption Christian Fellowship Church.

The victim was 14 and a member of the church when the sexual abuse occurred at hotels in Columbia. He said in court yesterday he has been hospitalized twice for anxiety.

Griffith faces separate sexual child abuse charges in Baltimore County. Those allegations involve the boy and four other minors.

 
 

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