The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says Shawn Anthony Justice was convicted of eight counts of second-degree child sexual abuse after a jury trial last November.
The 33-year-old Justice met the victim when he was pastor of Corinthian Baptist Church in 2007. She testified at the trial that he began sending her sexual text messages the following year.
The girl's father said the pastor was told to keep away from his daughter, and the family withdrew from the church. But, he says, in 2009 she sneaked out of the house and rode her bike to Justice's apartment to have sex.
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