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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 | 9:34 a.m.
A former church volunteer charged with molesting young boys at his Las Vegas home was sentenced to 10 to 50 years in prison on Monday.
Darin Franklin, 40, a youth group volunteer at First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, pleaded guilty to four felony charges and a gross misdemeanor charge as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Additionally, District Judge Joseph Bonaventure ordered Franklin to register as a sex offender and that he be supervised by authorities for the rest of his life.
Franklin's guilty plea related to his fondling of two boys, an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old, between June 2002 and January 2004.
In exchange for Franklin's guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop eight additional counts, including sexual assault of a minor under 16.
Authorities say Franklin invited boys from the church to his home near Rainbow Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue, where he gave them alcohol and assaulted them.
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