World IN BRIEF : REDWOOD CITY : Church Worker Gets Term for Sex Crimes
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A judge sentenced a former Lutheran Church youth worker to more than 48 years in prison for sex crimes against five minors aged 10 to 16. James Allen Weller, 32, was convicted in November of 27 counts of rape, forced oral copulation, forcible child molestation, oral copulation with a minor and taking pornographic pictures of a minor. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Alan Bollhoffer also ordered Weller to pay $2,600 in fines and restitution within three years. The assaults took place between 1986 and 1989.
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