Bakker's prison sentence is reduced to 18 years

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: August 24, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A federal judge resentenced Jim Bakker yesterday to 18 years in prison, a 27-year reduction of the initial sentence, after the former television evangelist expressed remorse for bilking his followers.

"I ask all that I have hurt to please forgive me," Bakker told US District Judge Graham Mullen. "I have asked heavenly God to please forgive me and now I ask this court for human forgiveness.

"Your honor, I am deeply and seriously remorseful for my moral failures and the hurt I caused to so many people," he said.

Minutes later, Mullen sentenced the founder of the PTL ...

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