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By Jeff Stein | jstein@syracuse.com
on February 08, 2014

North Syracuse, N.Y. — A former youth pastor at a North Syracuse church was sentenced last week on charges of sexually abusing a minor in Maryland.

Shaun Michael Ross, 33, pleaded guilty to the charges. He is accused of groping a 16-year-old girl when he was in a position of authority over her from April 2008 to April 2010.

Ross was put in charge of youth programs at the Victory Christian Center in North Syracuse in April. Three months later, he was charged with crimes in Maryland, where he was director of a youth ministry.

Ross was sentenced on Jan. 29. As part of a plea agreement, he will serve 18 months behind bars and face five years of probation. One of the initial two child sex abuse charges was thrown out as part of the…