FAIRBANKS -- A former Fairbanks pastor sentenced to seven years for sexual abuse of a minor is asking to be let out on bail while he appeals his conviction.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says a bail hearing was held Wednesday for 33-year-old Shawn Anthony Justice, who is confined in a Colorado prison.
Justice was not able to participate in the bail hearing by telephone. Another hearing is set for today.
A Fairbanks jury found Justice guilty of eight counts of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor in November 2010 for having sex with a then-15-year-old girl in 2007.
Justice met the victim when he was a pastor at Corinthian Baptist Church. Justice had a previous conviction for having sex with a teenager in a church choir he directed in Virginia when he was 24.
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