LUBBOCK, TX \u2014 A former youth pastor from Lubbock was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of child sexual assault bigamy.<\/p>\n
Luke Cunningham, 43, is required to serve a lifetime protective order and register as a sex offender for life.<\/p>\n
Cunningham served at Turning Point Community Church from 2016 to 2020 and was involved with two other churches in the Lubbock area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Cunningham had allegations dating back to 2013 at previous churches, and there was another case being investigated in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
Cunningham was most recently with Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The District Attorney\u2019s office stated there were 16 separate incidents of sexual assault involving two victims in the Lubbock area in 2018. Both victims were under the age of 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was alleged in court that Cunningham also made plans to have a fellow inmate kill one of his victims and make it look like a suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, TX \u2014 A former youth pastor from Lubbock was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-227271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}