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Nikki Henderson
Kimberly Rusley
A former Shreveport pastor will spend 6.5 years behind bars for sex crimes.
Today, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote sentenced Andrea Lewis for taking young girls across state lines for sex.
Two of his victims say the sentence was too light.
“I don’t like the length,” says Jane Doe, one of Lewis’ victims. “If it had been done in the early 2000’s or later, he would have had a harsher sentence, but because it was done in 1998/1999, his sentence wasn’t as strong.”
“I feel like the sentencing wasn’t lengthy enough,” says Jane Doe III, another victim of Lewis’. “I mean, because I’ve endured 10 years plus, building the rest of my life. I’ll always be affected by this and six and a half years will never equal up to the pain that I’ve endured, because of this situation.”
Lewis is the former pastor of Act on Faith Ministries off of Hollywood Avenue.
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