ELLSWORTH (AP) – A former children’s choir leader has been sentenced by a Hancock County Superior Court judge to three years in prison for inappropriately touching a boy in the choir. Thomas Wallace, 42, former director of the Eden Children’s Chorus and Ensemble in Bar Harbor, read a statement of apology before he was sentenced Wednesday. He was sentenced by Justice Thomas Delahanty II to seven years with all but three years suspended and 14 years probation.

Two 11-year-old twin boys and members of the children’s ensemble testified during Wallace’s trial in August that he acted inappropriately toward them during rehearsals at his home.