LA Church Usher Gets 30-Year Sentence

News 4
October 8, 2013

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An usher from a Los Angeles Jehovah's Witness congregation has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing three boys he met there.

Prosecutors say 34-year-old Marcelo Lozano was sentenced Tuesday and ordered to register as a sex offender. He pleaded no contest last month to two counts of sexual abuse and one count of oral copulation of a person under the age of 14.

Lozano met the boys, who ranged in age from 8 to 11 years old,, through the Jehovahs Witnesses Sun Valley Spanish congregation, where he was an usher.

The crimes date back to 2006 and some occurred at Lozano's home in the San Fernando Valley. None happened at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.