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The Associated Press
MOBILE -- A judge sentenced an Irvington preacher to 23 years in
prison for a sexual abuse conviction that involved a father and son,
who described similar cases of abuse 20 years apart.
The Rev. Dennis Lamar Fields, 52, pastor at Bethel Holiness Church in
south Mobile County, was sentenced Thursday by Mobile County Circuit
Judge Charles Graddick.
A large group of Fields' friends, family members and church members
attended.
In trial testimony, Fields' victim, now an adult, told jurors Fields
took lewd photos of him as a 9-year-old child and later burned them in
a backyard trash can, promising never to molest him again.
He called police 20 years later, he said, when his own 9-year-old son
revealed that Fields had begun molesting him as well.
Two other adult men -- one of them a defense witness -- also provided
testimony indicating Fields also had sexually exploited them when they
were boys.
At sentencing, defense attorney Dennis Knizley called witnesses on
Fields' behalf. Some were family. Some were friends or members of his
church.
Appealing for mercy, they told Graddick that the longtime preacher,
family patriarch and spiritual leader held the congregation and his
large family together by his benevolence and goodness.
One witness, an adult son of Fields, wailed out on the witness stand,
choking his words off with sobs.
A relative of the victims told Graddick that after Fields' conviction,
the little boy endured verbal threats from the pastor's supporters and
family members.
The child now lives in fear, she said, and wants Fields put away.
"This doesn't make me mad," Graddick said just before he sentenced
Fields. "It makes me sick."
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2306 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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