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
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