A former Arkansas pastor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing three of his own children, all of who were under the age of 14.
James Edwin Cowan, 46, is the former pastor of Little River Community Church in Winthrop, Arkansas. Though initially charged with 28 counts of rape, he pled guilty to three of them and was sentenced to five decades in prison, though a swift execution would have been far more apropos.
Cowan’s then-wife (now ex-wife), Mary Cowan Miller (featured below) has also been charged with multiple counts of permitting child abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor.
According to reports, her then-husband James confessed to her that he was raping their children, but she did nothing about it and did not report the crimes to law enforcement. An affidavit obtained by The Roys Report explains:
