(EAGNEWS) — LAS VEGAS – A former Las Vegas kindergarten teacher will serve between 12 ½ years and life in prison for kidnapping a 16-year-old girl and creating child pornography in his apartment for two months.
District Judge Stefany Miley issued the sentence to 48-year-old Melvyn Sprowson, who repeatedly professed his love for the 16-year-old and described the relationship as a “bad moral decision,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
Sprowson weaved his career as an educator with his religion in a rambling justification for his actions when he addressed the court on Monday.
“This is an issue of age of consent. This is not an issue of me being a criminal and having criminal intent,” he said. “One day I will die, and I will wake up in the arms of Jesus. That is my sole consideration in this whole process. The Lord knows what happened. I have a clear conscious before God.”
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