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  Former Shelby County Youth Minister Receives Suspended Sentence for Child Molestation

Macon Chronicle
February 28, 2008

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7941845

Christopher C. Sprinkel, 32, formerly of Shelbina was sentenced in Macon County Circuit Court yesterday in front of Judge Hadley E. Grimm. Sprinkel was sentenced to eight years, execution of sentence suspended, but was placed on five years probation for felony child molestation.

He was found guilty of child molestation in the first degree charge at a trial on Jan. 3 and 4 at the Macon County Courthouse on a change of venue from Shelby County. A jury found Sprinkel guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of having sexual contact with a child under the age of 14 on or about Jan. 9, 2006.

Sprinkel, formerly served as youth minister at the United Methodist Church of Shelbina according to a February 2006 article from the Shelbina Weekly newspaper.

 
 

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