Youth Pastor Jamie William Soria was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty on nine counts of child molestation and one count of sodomy.
Prosecutors said Soria preyed on the children as a volunteer at Northwest Church and coach at Malloch Elementary School. The four boys were under 14 when he abused them, they said.
A criminal investigation against Soria began in 2004 after a child at the church told another pastor Soria abused him.
Soria's defense attorneys said that child's mother was out to get their client, who they portrayed as “touchy-feely” but not a child molester.
“This can't be justified in the eyes of the Lord,” Soria told the judge at his sentencing hearing.
Note to Pastor Soria - In prison pedophiles get special treatment. I hope you are ready for it. At 36 you've got at least 40 years of hard time coming.
