SF church volunteer gets 15 years for molestation
Posted at: 09/21/2012 8:27 AM
By: Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A former volunteer at a Santa Fe Catholic church has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for molesting two boys.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that 36-year-old Anthony Martinez pleaded guilty in one of the cases Thursday. He had pleaded guilty in another molestation case last year.
District Judge Michael Vigil handed down the maximum term in both cases and said he believed there were more victims.
Martinez was a part-time volunteer with the Edge youth-ministry program at Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community in Santa Fe.
He was charged in 2011 with giving a cellphone to a teenage boy in exchange for sex. Last month a new indictment was handed up after a boy told a counselor Martinez raped him when he was 11.
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