ALABAMA
WSFA
Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Attorney General Luther Strange announced that a youth minister facing charges in Madison and Cullman counties for sex crimes against children was sentenced today on similar crimes of which he has been convicted in Elmore County.
John A. Astorga was found guilty on April 11 by a jury in Elmore County Circuit Court for two counts of first-degree sexual abuse. During the trial, evidence that was presented by the Attorney General’s Office that included the testimony of three separate victims as well as the pastor of Bethel Assembly of God in Wetumpka where Astorga had been employed.
At today’s sentencing, Astorga faced a penalty of one year and one day to ten years imprisonment for each of the two counts, which are class C felonies. State law also provides that he also will be required to register as a convicted sex offender and to abide by community notification requirements of state law.
Astorga was sentenced to 36 months to run concurrent in the sexual abuse case.
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