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LUBBOCK, Texas — Prosecutors on Monday morning said Luke Cunningham, 43, a former youth pastor convicted of child sexual abuse, previously made plans to have an inmate kill one of his victims.
Cunningham pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a child bigamy. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
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Prosecutor Cassie Graham said Cunningham’s case had the most manipulative and horrific spiritual abuse she had seen in this job…