Garden Grove Man Gets Life Sentence for Molesting Young Male Relative

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 67-year-old man was sentenced April 26 to 98 years to life in prison for molesting a male relative from 1997 through 2001 in the Stanton area. Terry Lyn Myers of Garden Grove was convicted in February of five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a minor, all felonies. Mr. Myers volunteered at multiple churches in Orange County, including Grace Community Church, formerly known as Nutwood Church, in Garden Grove, from 1995-2013, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Since 2013, volunteered at MidCities Baptist Church in Westminster, deputies said. The boy said Mr. Myers began molesting him when he was about 9 years old, prosecutors said in a sentencing brief....