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	Former Minister Sentenced on Sex Crime Charges Associated Press, carried in The State April 21, 2006 http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14396416.htm Myrtle Beach - A former Murrells Inlet minister was ordered Thursday to serve five years in prison after pleading guilty to three sex crime charges. Troy Taylor, 36, was sentenced to eight years in prison, which the judge suspended to five years. He must serve 85 percent of his sentence. Taylor will also have three years of probation after his release and must register as a sexual offender. The former youth minister at Low Country Community Church pleaded guilty to two counts of committing lewd act on a minor and one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Taylor was charged with molesting 12-year-old boys in his home in 1991 and 1988. He was also charged for an incident that occurred in 1999. Two of the victims were Taylor's cousins. Taylor and family members testified that sexual abuse stretched back at least three generations in their family, and Taylor said he had been sexually abused by family members as a child. Taylor is awaiting trial on another charge of committing lewd act on a minor in Williamsburg County.
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