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A Dodge City pastor accused of sexual assault has struck a plea deal.
A Ford County judge sentenced Dr. Jerrold Ketner to 36 months probation after he pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual battery on Tuesday.
Ketner, who is 80-years-old, will not have to pay restitution, nor will he have to register as offender, but he was ordered not to have contact with the victim of the crime or her husband.
Carmen Montelongo says that’s just not enough.
“I’m afraid. I’m going to be afraid to go out. Because with people like this, you don’t know. You just don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Montelongo through a translator. Montelongo speaks only Spanish.
She says she has the same fears now that she did when she decided to turn Ketner in, that he’ll end up hurting someone else.
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