FLORIDA
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Posted: Saturday, August 2, 2014

Millard K. Ives | Staff Writer millardives@dailycommercial.com

A former Eustis youth pastor initially jailed in 2012 on allegations of sexually assaulting two developmentally disabled people at a group home and a child at a day care center has been found guilty.

In the three-day trial at the Lake County Courthouse, it took a jury about one hour on Thursday to bring back guilty verdicts for Kenneth Mar Hagins, 42, on one count each of sexual battery of a mentally defective person and lewd and lascivious molestation, according to the State Attorney’s Office.

Hagins remains at the Lake County jail and will be sentenced at a later date. Hagins faces 35 years in prison on the convictions, said Walter Forgie, the supervising assistant State’s Attorney at the Lake County office.

Hagins, of Tavares, was a youth pastor at a Eustis church and…