UPDATE: The Associated Baptist Press has more on the story.
A Virginia youth pastor has been hauled in on charges he had consensual sex with a minor.
Jack Ryan Duffer, 40, was arrested on Aug. 13. The alleged incident occurred between July 24 and Aug. 8, according to published reports.
Duffer was the youth pastor at Seaford Baptist Church in York County. Reports have not indicated whether the female victim attended the church.
Source: Virginia Pilot, WAVY-TV
A former New Jersey youth pastor fessed up this week to his collection of more than 100 images of child pornography.
Robert Kevin Corlino, 32, of Newfield, Gloucester County, pleaded guilty to the charge of possessing child pornography and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.
Corlino was a youth pastor at Malaga Assembly of God Church from 2007 until the time of his arrest in March. He was charged after authorities seized two computers from his home and discovered 134 images of child pornography, all of the same young girl. The girl was reportedly not connected to the church where he served.
Source: Courier-Post Online
UPDATE: William Charles Lohn has been indicted
A Tennessee youth pastor has been accused of embezzling $73,000 from a Baptist church over a three-year period.
Make that the former youth pastor of Shelbyville Mills Baptist Church. According to church officials Charles Lohn was “writing himself additional checks.”
The allegations will be presented to a Bedford County grand jury next week.
Source: Shelbyville Times-Gazette
Kentucky youth minister Derek Coulter was indicted this week on charges of manslaughter, wanton endangerment and unlawful transaction with a minor in the death of 13-year-old James Mitchell.
Coulter allegedly let Mitchell take the wheel of his SUV during an overnight youth outing when it crashed on June 6.
Coulter, youth pastor at Big Springs Assembly of God Church in Bloomfield, Ky., originally told police that he was driving and that the vehicle crashed when he swerved to miss a deer.
Source: WAVE 3
A West Virginia youth minister who uses the online handle Philbilly was recently accused of attempting to seduce a 17-year-old girl through MySpace instant messaging.
Steve Steinbrecher, 38, was accused of soliciting a minor over the computer. The Mingo County man told police he was a youth minister at Jenny’s Creek Gospel Church and a school bus driver.
Source: Williamson Daily News
A former Pennsylvania youth pastor accused of embezzling $68,000 from a Adams County church where she worked using an alias recently pleaded no contest to federal charges.
Anita Violet Gay Davison, 41, went by Katrina Wischmann when she allegedly stole $68,000 from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in McSherrystown. She reportedly embezzled the money by depositing checks and electronic deposits through PayPal to a secret checking account she opened for the church’s youth group.
Davison, whose aliases have included the names Violet Davison, Katrina Patterson and Katrina Wentworth, worked at St. Paul’s for four years. Church officials noticed money had gone missing over a 14-month period in April 2007.
Source: York Daily Record
A former Birmingham, Ala., youth pastor who pleaded guilty to transporting a teenage girl to Oklahoma with the intent of engaging in sexual activity was recently sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Webb was the youth pastor at Word of Life Christian Center in Birmingham when the incident occurred in 2004. Webb’s father is the senior pastor of the church.
Dozens of supporters were reportedly waiting for Webb when he arrived at the courthouse for sentencing.
Source: CBS 42
Former youth pastor Brian Neiswender, 27, pleaded no contest to inappropriately touching as many as 10 youth group girls while at Christ Community Church in Kingston, Pa.
He’s been sentenced to eight to 16 months of jail, but his father thinks he’s “been punished enough already by losing his opportunity to continue as a pastor.”
The incidents, according to a criminal complaint, occurred from September 2003 through December 2006. At least three of the victims were reportedly touched during a hide-a-seek game in a darkened church.
One victim, now 23, testified that Neiswender used problems she and other girls sought his counseling for against them.
Source: The Times Leader
