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Minister-professor sentenced for soliciting minor: Began with Internet contact

A former religion professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania was sentenced June 1 for soliciting sex with what he believed were preteen girls. Saying the crime “cries out for incarceration,” Judge Scott A. Evans sentenced David B. Eller, 61, to two and a half to 10 years in state prison followed by five years of probation.

Eller, an ordained minister, tearfully hugged his wife before he was led away by sheriff’s deputies. She had told the judge she had forgiven her husband.

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