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Former Minister Gets 30 Years for Sex Charges
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- A federal magistrate in Urbana has sentenced a former Illinois youth minister to 30 years in prison on sexual exploitation charges.

The News-Gazette reports that former Rossville youth minister and coach Andrew Thomas was sentenced Friday. He is accused of posing as a female to get minor boys to electronically send him pornographic pictures.

Thomas pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual exploitation of children. Thomas received a 15-year prison sentence in May in Vermilion County for abusing a teenage boy.

A federal grand jury indictment against Thomas found that he used social-networking websites, tests and e-mail to entice the boys.

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