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Posted by Kristal Dixon (Editor) , May 03, 2014
A former church volunteer with First Baptist Canton pleaded guilty to child sexual battery.
Matthew Brent Sheffield, 31, pleaded guilty last month to two counts of sexual battery against a minor and received an eight year probation sentence.
Sheffield was sentenced on April 18 by Judge N. Jackson Harris in Cherokee County Superior Court. He will also have to register as a sex offender.
A Cherokee County grand jury in April 2011 indicted the volunteer in the June 2010 sexual battery of the boy, who was 14 years old at the time.
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