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Coach, Pastor Convicted: Are You More Cautious?

How do you keep your children safe while leaving them with people in positions of authority?

ATM robberies can make you leery of depositing money alone; drunken motorists may have you swearing off late-night drives on holidays.

But what's the appropriate—or simply instinctive—reaction when you hear of adults taking advantage of children?

On Friday, two Lake Forest pedophiles, both in positions of authority, were sentenced in separate cases to stretches in state prison for hurting children.

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Oscar D. Perez Perez, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"details-of-alleged-molestation-by-bishop-revealed"} -->, pastor of a small Laguna Hills congregation, was made a deal with the judge to reduce his prison sentence to eight-years and eight-months by pleading guilty to multiple felonies after he


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