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ACTON BOWEN RECEIVES 1,008 YEARS FOR SEX CRIMES
December 20, 2019
Donna Thornton
Gadsden Times
A once prominent Alabama youth evangelist on Friday received the maximum sentences after pleading guilty in Etowah County to 28 sex offenses committed against boys, ages 12 to 16, whom he encountered through his ministry.
Acton Bowen’s consecutive sentences total 1,008 years, and maximum monetary fines of $840,000 were imposed.
Bowen pleaded guilty to all charges against him — multiple counts of second-degree sodomy, enticing a child for sex, traveling to meet a child for sex, facilitating travel of a child for sex and second-degree sexual abuse.
Bowen was