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| Parole issues keeping religious sect leader behind bars |
| By abqjournal.com- Mark Oswald |
| Published: 01/27/2016 |
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TAOS – Religious sect leader Wayne Bent, who’s doing time behind bars for charges related to his laying with two naked teenage girls in what Bent and his followers maintain was a spiritual healing rite, may be closer to getting out of prison after a hearing here Tuesday. But apparently nothing will happen until Bent, 74, has an approved parole plan and the state Parole Board OKs Bent’s release. State District Judge Abigail Aragon in November ordered Bent’s release by the end of 2015 for health reasons, with a stipulation that he have no involvement with children, undergo sex-offender treatment and register as a sex offender. Prosecutors aren’t objecting to Bent getting out, but that hasn’t happened because the state Probation and Parole Division has not approved a parole plan for him. Bent, a self-proclaimed messiah who was head of The Lord Our Righteousness Church in Union County, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2008 for convictions on a count of second-degree criminal sexual contact with a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He’s served seven years and his lawyer says he was diagnosed a year ago with skin cancer that threatens his hearing. Read More. |
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