Roxboro minister sentenced to serve up to 40 years in child sex sting :: WRAL.com

 A Roxboro minister was sentenced Wednesday to serve up to 40 years in federal prison after he accepted a plea deal of making and possessing child pornography in a case where prosecutors said he carried on a sexual relationship with an underage boy that spanned several years.

Andre Thorpe, 36, was indicted in May 2018, and as part of the plea deal he was convicted on one count of possessing pornography and one count of manufacturing pornography.

He was also sentenced to lifetime probation.

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Thorpe has been identified as a suspect in other underage child sex cases, but this was the first one where he has been convicted.

Officials said Thorpe, who was affiliated with several churches in the Triangle, met his victims at church and during his involvement with the Boys and Girls Club of Durham.

Roxboro minister sentenced to serve up to 40 years in child sex sting :: WRAL.com