The Alaska Court of Appeals rejected the appeals of a former Baptist pastor and his son who were both convicted of sexual crimes in separate cases.
Opinions released on Christmas Eve rejected the appeals of Richard Cook, 51, and James Thunderhawk, 22.
Cook was convicted in a 1999 case of 11 counts of sexual abuse of a minor for the molestation of an adopted teenage girl while he was serving as a pastor in Ruby.
Thunderhawk was convicted in a 2001 case of four counts of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree assault for the rape of a teenage girl at knifepoint in a Fairbanks residence.
Cook is serving a 15-year prison sentence and Thunderhawk a 19-year term.
