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- Age at time of sentencing: 61Watertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Initially plead not guiltyWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Changed plea to guiltyWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Sentenced to ten years of probationWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Required to register as a sex offenderWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Classification hearing is scheduled for June 29, 2009Watertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Resigned from his pastorate in October 2008Watertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Did not molest any childrenWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Admitted what he did was "ungodly"Watertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
- Expressed remorse for his actionsWatertown Daily Times: Former Oswegatchie pastor pleads guilty... (May 19, 2009)
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Merton Parks is a former pastor who was sentenced to ten years of probation after pleading guilty to charges of downloading child pornography from the Internet. Previously Parks had plead not guilty to the charges.
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The Investigation
The investigation began in July 2008 when the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Unit traced a credit card used to purchase child pornography back to Merton Parks. Parks had used the card to pay for the pornography, which he downloaded to a computer inside the church. Parks had been the interim pastor at the First Baptist church in Oswegatchie, New York but resigned after the trustees of the church learned of the investigation and demanded he leave. He was subsequently arrested and charged and originally plead not guilty. He changed his tune in May 2009 however and plead guilty as charged.News 10 Now: Church reacts to pastor's arrest (October 10, 2008)
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