A Georgia pastor, 57-year-old Kenneth Adkins, has been sentenced to prison for 35 years, in the case of molesting two teenagers who attended his church in the coastal Brunswick.

Media outlets report that a judge, Adkins sentenced on Tuesday. A jury convicted him earlier in this month on eight criminal counts, including the charges on aggravated child molestation.

Prosecutors said that the pastor pressured the two teenagers, a boy and a girl, both aged 15, to have sex while Adkins watched in his office at the Greater New Dimension Church in the year 2009. They said that the pastor also touched the girl inappropriately.

The male victim has testified against Adkins during his trial. But the young woman testified that the allegations were false.

Adkins insisted that he is innocent. He told the judge at his sentencing hearing that: "Most certainly I did not do the things I am accused of."

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