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Molester of boys sentenced

By Matt Pordum (contact)

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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