Ex-pastor pleads guilty to sex with minors

CHARLOTTE (NC)
Sacramento Bee

By GARY L. WRIGHT
The Charlotte Observer

Published: Friday, Jan. 18, 2013

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-A former Gastonia pastor pleaded guilty on Friday to charges he engaged in illicit sexual conduct with two minors while in Haiti working for a church ministry.

As Larry Michael Bollinger, his legs shackled, walked into the courtroom, he smiled and waved to his wife.

“I would not be here if I had not confessed what I had done,” Bollinger, 67, told U.S. Magistrate Judge David Cayer.

Bollinger, struggling to hold back tears, then said: “I am very remorseful -� I am willing to accept responsibility.”

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