‘Utterly evil’: Louisiana pastor sentenced to seven years’ prison for molesting teen girl

Published February 12, 2026 By admin

The Louisiana Pentecostal pastor who repeatedly molested a teenage girl told her that her “world would turn upside down” if she ever reported his crimes, she said in a statement on Wednesday in a suburban New Orleans court.

Milton Otto Martin III would blame her for his crimes, saying he couldn’t resist the temptation that she presented, the survivor’s statement added.

Now 30, and having seen him be found guilty in December of indecent behavior with a juvenile, the survivor whom Martin preyed on in the south-eastern Louisiana community of Chalmette pleaded with the judge presiding over the disgraced pastor’s case to hand him the stiffest punishment possible. State court judge Darren Roy subsequently ordered Martin to spend seven years in prison, the maximum sentence for indecent behavior.

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