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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. A former pastor who spent 26 years serving churches in Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach as well as serving as a police chaplain has pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts with minors and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
John Rodgers McFarland, 68, was first arrested in Escondido in December 2018 and charged in San Diego County with two felony counts of molesting a girl under 14, police and prosecutors reported at the time of his arrest, Los Angeles Times reported.
Search warrants were issued for McFarland’s home as well as churches where he worked, and police said in 2018 that investigators had found evidence other victims had been abused during his time as a pastor in Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach.
WESTMINSTER – An Orange County judge has sentenced a man who served in the 1980s as a pastor in Calexico to 15 years to life in prison for molesting seven
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