UPDATE: Former Abundant Life pastor faces up to 30 years in prison

NFW Daily News
July 1, 2017

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20170630/update-former-abundant-life-pastor-faces-up-to-30-years-in-prison

State Attorney: Jury also heard evidence from two earlier victims who had been subjected to the same pattern of conduct and sexual molestation when they were teenagers.

FORT WALTON BEACH — Former Abundant Life Church pastor Larry Michael Thorne is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 24 after a jury found him guilty Thursday of sexual battery on a minor and lewd and lascivious behavior with a child.

Thorne faces up to 30 years in prison and will be designated as a sexual offender for the rest of his life. He will remain in the Okaloosa County Jail until he is sentenced.

Thorne was arrested Nov. 14, 2014, after the victim reported he had sexual contact with her on numerous occasions. The jury heard evidence that between January 2012 and November 2014 Thorne repeatedly sexually assaulted the victim starting when she was 14 years old and continuing until she was 17, according to a press release from Bill Eddins, State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit.

The acts of sexual molestation included sexual intercourse in Thorne’s home in Fort Walton Beach, Eddins said in the release. He noted that the jury also heard evidence from two earlier victims who had been subjected to the same pattern of conduct and sexual molestation when they were teenagers.