(08/10/08 – Initial BBT Report)
Andrew Belant, 25, a teacher’s aide at Jacoby Creek Elementary School and as a middle school ministry director for the Eureka First Presbyterian Church in Humboldt County, California accused of molesting four boys has received a preliminary hearing in Humboldt County Superior Court.
Belant pleaded not guilty to 20 charges alleging the molestation offour boys, ages 9 to 13, during the period from January 2007 to March 2008.
Bewlant met the alleged victims while working at a Eureka church and in afterschool programs.
Belant remains in the Humboldt County jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.
References:
Prelim begins for youth pastor accused of molesting boys (08/08/08)
Teacher’s aide, assistant youth director arrested on molestation charges (03/04/08)

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Andrew Belant was sentenced on July 9 to 89 years in jail. (San Jose Mercury News, 7/9/09)
Check it out. He got stabbed in jail. http://www.times-standard.com/ci_11128598