IOWA
World-Herald
By Chad Nation
WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
COUNCIL BLUFFS — The Iowa Court of Appeals has reduced one of the three charges a former pastor at a Council Bluffs church was convicted of in 2011.
Although Efrain Umaña had the charge of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse reduced to assault, he will still likely spend the same amount of time in prison.
Umaña, 57, was found guilty of second-degree sexual abuse, third-degree sexual abuse and assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in January 2011 after members of his congregation came forth with several allegations of abuse.
The victim in the second-degree sexual abuse conviction was 11 when Umaña took her to his Council Bluffs church, Templo Monte Horeb, where she said he forced her to have sex with him.
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