August 13, 2014
Zaina Kahuk
News Writer
Headlines
Former Montgomery County church leader, Nathaniel “Nate” Morales, will be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing three boys back in the 1980s and 1990s. Morales was found guilty on three counts of sexual abuse of a minor and two more counts of sexual offense in the second degree in May. While he was a youth leader at the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Morales sexually abused the boys during sleepovers and in their own homes. The youngest victim was 11, and the abuse continued until he turned 18, but the abuse was not reported until 2009. Morales faces up to 85 years in prison.
