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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.
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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