LOUISIANA
The Times-Picayune
By Ken Daley, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on November 17, 2015
An Orleans Parish jury began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of an eastern New Orleans pastor accused of molesting a member of his congregation over at least a five-year span, starting in 1999 when the boy was about 12.
Kevin Boyd Sr., the 46-year-old presiding pastor of The Church At New Orleans, faces a prison sentence of five to 10 years if convicted as charged by the jury of three women and three men. The jury’s decision must be unanimous.
Jurors received the case at 1:25 p.m., after hearing instructions from criminal court Judge Camille Buras.
Assistant district attorney Andrew DeCoste described Boyd as a manipulative predator in his closing rebuttal argument.
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