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B.C. pastor charged with sexual assault, sexual interference
involving children
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
PUBLISHED 9 Jan 2023
A pastor who was servicing a Metro Vancouver church has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference against children.
Police in New Westminster say they began an investigation after multiple reports came to them.
A police news release says the offences are alleged to have taken place between 2017 and 2021.
It says after a lengthy investigation by the department’s major crime unit, three charges each of sexual assault and sexual interference have been laid against Pastor Edwin Alvarez.
Police haven’t released which Christian church the pastor was caring for, other than to say it was at a small, Metro Vancouver location.
The statement says Alvarez was arrested with the help of the Saanich Police Department on Jan. 4.
Former Pa. pastor, teacher sentenced for sexually abusing a first-grader: report
Published: Jan. 12, 2023, 12:20 p.m.
By EmilyAnn Jackman |ejackman@pennlive.com
A former Shickshinny, Luzerne Couty, pastor and Chester County teacher, who was accused of sexually abusing a student in 2007 and 2008, received a sentence of 20 to 40 years behind bars on Monday, a news report said.
Randy Boston, 65, was sentenced to state prison for sexually abusing a first-grade boy while teaching fifth grade at West Chester Christian School, according to Fox 56.
Boston was found guilty of indecent assault, corruption of a minor, deviate sexual intercourse with a child, and other related charges in September 2022. He was first accused in July 2021, the news outlet reported.
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