A court has sentenced a former pastor of the Muscoy Unified Methodist Chuch in San Bernardino (USA), who was convicted in October of 32 of counts of sexual abuse, to 308 years to life in prison on Wednesday.
Stephen James Howard, 58, of Fontana, was convicted on 20 counts of lewd acts upon a child, six counts of oral copulation of a person under 16 years old and six counts of sodomy of a person under 18, a district attorney’s news release said. He is currently being housed at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, jail records showed.
“Thanks to the hard work of our prosecutor and the Family Violence Unit support staff we were able to remove this child predator from our community and put him behind bars where he belongs for the rest of his life,” District Attorney Mike Ramos said in a statement.
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