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Youth Pastor Guilty of Sending Child Porn

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A Brea youth pastor pleaded guilty to sending child pornography over the Internet to an undercover FBI agent, officials said Thursday. Jeffrey Devore, 53, of Fullerton, a minister at the Brea Congregational Church, pleaded Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to distributing child pornography.

Devore sent images to an agent involved in a sting operation targeting men who sought to travel to Mexico to have sex with young boys, officials said. He faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced July 20.

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