MISSISSIPPI
WAPT
[with video]
JACKSON, Miss. —Former Clinton High School choir director and music minister John Langworthy avoided prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to five of eight counts of gratification of lust.
Langworthy was sentenced to 10 years on each of the five counts, but under the plea agreement, he will not go to prison. Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Bill Gowan suspended the 50-year sentence.
Langworthy, 50, was accused of molesting five boys between the ages of 6 and 13 between 1980 and 1984. The incidents happened while Langworthy was babysitting each of the children at his sister’s home in Jackson and at his dorm room at Mississippi College, according to the indictments.
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