BINGHAMTON - A former pastor who disappeared with a 15-year-old girl and performed a marriage ceremony on the run was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years in federal prison along with the lengthy state prison term he's already serving.

At the sentencing, the victim's mother described the ordeal her family was put through after being “betrayed” by 54-year-old Lewis Lee, their pastor and friend.

“This has been like living a nightmare ... but I never wake up, and it never goes away,” said the mother, adding she suffered a miscarriage and contemplated suicide as events played out. “Our happy family isn't so happy anymore.”

The mother said her once-cheerful daughter has been left “confused, hurt and angry.”

Lee admitted in May to four federal crimes, including crossing state lines to have sex with a minor and violating an order of protection.

He was sentenced in August to 9 1/3 to 28 years in state prison after pleading guilty in June to seven counts of third-degree rape.

Lee will serve 11 years and three months in a federal prison and then the remainder of his time in state prison.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas McAvoy also ordered Lee to be supervised by authorities for 25 years after his release.

“Mr. Lee you have gone a long way to destroy the lives of the victim and her family. It is beyond my power to describe how heinous this crime is,” McAvoy said.

He said he had little faith Lee could be rehabilitated in prison.

Lee was ordered to pay nearly $67,000 in restitution to cover the cost of mental health treatments for the girl and for some of the farm income the family lost while searching for the teen.

McAvoy also imposed a list of restrictions on Lee if he ever gets out of prison, including barring him from ever having unsupervised contact - either in person, by phone, or on computer - with any minors.

Assistant federal defender Lisa Peebles asked McAvoy to impose a nine-year sentence, the minimum Lee could receive under federal sentencing guidelines.

“He knows he has left a path of destruction behind,” Peebles said. “He is not attempting to mitigate or minimize anything he has done. He deeply regrets what he has done. He has no good explanation for it. He has no excuse for it.”

Peebles took exception to a pre-sentence report that recommended additional prison time because Lee's victim had been home-schooled on a farm and was considered more vulnerable because of her limited life experiences.

Lovric also asked McAvoy to add time to the sentence because Lee had abused a position of trust as a pastor and because of the age of the victim.

Lovric said Lee had been involved in two other sexual incidents with minors, but he did not offer any details and would not elaborate outside the courtroom.

Lee was arrested in Hagerstown, Md., in April on a federal warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and a New York warrant for first-degree custodial interference.

The Columbus, N.Y., girl was with Lee when the two were taken into custody outside an office supply business where Lee had been working as a delivery man.

Authorities said the girl left home willingly with Lee, the former pastor of the Christian Baptist Church in Sherburne, on March 18. But Lee was charged because she was a minor and legally unable to give her consent.

Lee, who is married with two grown daughters, had spent three years with the victim's family, helping out on their farm 60 miles southeast of Syracuse, hunting with the girl's father and ministering to the family's spiritual needs.

A relative said Lee used the girl's dream of becoming a singer to lure her as far away as Tennessee. Authorities said the pair also spent time in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wyoming while on the run. The family later learned that Lee had given the girl an engagement ring when she was 13.

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