LA church usher gets 30-year sentence

LOS ANGELES (CA)
News 4

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An usher from a Los Angeles Jehovah’s Witness congregation has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually abusing three boys he met there.

Prosecutors say 34-year-old Marcelo Lozano was sentenced Tuesday and ordered to register as a sex offender. He pleaded no contest last month to two counts of sexual abuse and one count of oral copulation of a person under the age of 14.

Lozano met the boys, who ranged in age from 8 to 11 years old,, through the Jehovahs Witnesses Sun Valley Spanish congregation, where he was an usher.

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