CALIFORNIA
The Press-Enterprise
DECEMBER 11, 2013 BY JOHN ASBURY
A Menifee Mormon bishop was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 11, to three years in prison for molesting two teenage girls who attended his church.
Todd Michael Edwards, 49, received two concurrent sentences of three years in prison for two felony counts of sexual battery and sexual penetration with a foreign object. A witness intimidation felony was dismissed as part of a deal with prosecutors when he pleaded guilty Nov. 13.
Edwards, who was the bishop of the Menifee Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat in court with his hands folded, carrying a plastic bag of diabetes medication.
He remained free until his sentencing hearing Wednesday, when he stood before Judge Becky Dugan in a Riverside courtroom. He was led away by deputies and handcuffed before being booked into Riverside County jail, where he will await being taken to state prison.
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