New York:

A former youth minister who admitted he sexually abused five girls who attended his New York City church but then tried to take back his guilty plea has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. Jeremy Fulton declined to speak at his sentencing Tuesday. Two of the girls' mothers told a judge Fulton had abused the trust of them and their daughters. The Manhattan district attorney's office says the 29-year-old Fulton helped run after-school and summer camp programs at Mariners' Temple Baptist Church. Prosecutors say the girls were 10 to 16 years old.