IDAHO
The Raw Story
By David Edwards
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
An Idaho church deacon who blamed Satan after he molested a 12-year-old girl in a storage closet has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, but could spend less than a year behind bars.
Alexander Gonzalez Garcia, 57, was arrested last December on charges of lewd conduct with a minor.
According to authorities, the girl said that Garcia had touched her inappropriately while they were in a storage closet at Nampa Seventh-Day Adventist Church, where he was a deacon.
Garcia reportedly told investigators that “Satan was in the storage room with him and the girl.” But he insisted that he had only kissed her and hugged her.
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