UPDATED:: Instructor at Mormon church sexually abused children, Texas police say - The Washington Post

UPDATE::  McKinney church instructor gets 50 years for molesting children

A 23-year-old former church instructor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison without the possibility of parole after admitting that he sexually abused multiple children.

The Collin County Criminal District Attorney’s Office called Noel Anderson a serial child predator.

Anderson was an instructor for 7 and 8-year-olds at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He was arrested last March after a little girl told her mother that he had abused her.

He confessed to the abuse and admitted that he had sexually abused multiple children that he met through the church over a period of several years.

A young man who served as an instructor at a Mormon church in Texas admitted that he sexually assaulted children, authorities said.

Police said 22-year-old Noel Anderson, who was a primary instructor at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Tex., abused four children between the ages of 2 and 6. The crimes happened over seven years, during which time Anderson met the children through church meetings and other activities, according to the McKinney Police Department.

Anderson has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony, and indecency with a child, a second-degree felony. He was arrested last month and is being held on a $200,000 bond, online records show. His attorney did not immediately return a call Monday.

Instructor at Mormon church sexually abused children, Texas police say - The Washington Post