ALABAMA
AL.com
By Jon Reed | jreed@al.com
on April 03, 2013
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — A former youth pastor in Wetumpka was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the sexual abuse of a child.
John A. Astorga, 38, of Titus, was convicted in Cullman County Circuit Court in December 2012 on one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a child who was less than 12 years old. Astorga received the maximum sentence, according to a news release from Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.
Astorga, a former youth minister at the Bethel Assembly of God in Wetumpka, was convicted in April 2012 on two counts of first-degree sexual abuse in Elmore County. He was sentenced to 36 months on those charges. He has appealed that conviction.
Astorga will serve the sentences consecutively.
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