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MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 11:31 AM Oct 2018

Good News: Pastor Gets 7 Years for Sexual Assault, Sex With Youth Group Members

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-gets-7-years-for-sexual-assault-sex-with-youth-group-members-227688/

Joshua Clemons, a former youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Parker, Colorado, who once allegedly confessed that he struggled with an attraction to "young girls' bodies," will spend the next seven years in prison for having sex with underage members of his youth group.

A release from Colorado's 18th Judicial District said Clemons, 35, was sentenced on Sept. 21 to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for one count of sexual exploitation involving a 17-year-old, a Class 4 felony; and one count of attempted sex assault on a child by one in a position of trust. This sentence is to be followed by 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation. A plea agreement signed by the fallen pastor also calls for him to serve another three years in prison consecutively in a related Denver case. He will be formally sentenced in that case on Oct. 19.

Clemons, who worked at Crossroads Community Church from 2006 through September 2015, had been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who had long been in his program.

Details from court records on the case said the relationship between the pastor, who was married, and his victim continued when she went off to Colorado State University. The relationship only ended near the end of 2016, after Clemons began showing up at his victim's new church and she threatened to get a restraining order.
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Good News: Pastor Gets 7 Years for Sexual Assault, Sex With Youth Group Members (Original Post) MineralMan Oct 2018 OP
But, the body is a vessel, he just wanted to share his blessed vessel with his flock. Funtatlaguy Oct 2018 #1
Are Churches merely candy stores for pedophiles cleverly disguised as safe havens? Fred Sanders Oct 2018 #2
They sure can be. If you search Google News for MineralMan Oct 2018 #3

MineralMan

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3. They sure can be. If you search Google News for
Tue Oct 2, 2018, 01:13 PM
Oct 2018

pastor, minister, youth pastor or priest, you'll find stories like this almost daily. Disturbing. And those are just the ones who have gotten caught...

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