EL PASO (TX)
El Paso Times
July 17, 2019
By Aaron Martinez
A former El Paso Catholic priest was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted the previous day on a dozen sexual abuse charges.
MiguelLuna, 69, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on six counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 10 years in prison on the three counts of sexual assault of a child.
He was also sentenced to 10 years of probation on three counts of indecency with a child.
The sentences will be served concurrently.
Luna was facing up to life in prison on the aggravated sexual charges.
A jury of nine woman and three men reached the sentencing verdict Tuesday. The same jury convicted him Monday on all 12 charges.
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The trial was held in the 120th District Court with Judge Maria Salas-Mendoza presiding.
Luna was arrested June 11, 2018, after one of his victims, who is now in her late 30s, reported that the former priest began sexually abusing her when she was 8 years in the 1990s at an El Paso church.
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