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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Virginia, USA · 2019

United States: Virginia youth pastor pleads guilty to indecent acts with a teenager from his church

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth pastor with custodial responsibility for the teenage victim through the church

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

A youth pastor's custodial authority over a congregant teenager, the exact relationship the 'custodian' charge itself names.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. Date in cited record · guilty plea and sentence

    Virginia — circuit court (county not confirmed in press). Jordan Baird, a youth pastor who had faced up to 10 years, was sentenced to three years in prison plus three years' probation after pleading guilty to two counts of indecent acts with a child by a custodian, for abusing a teenager from his church.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • custodial authority over a teenage congregant in the youth ministry

Primary record

Sources

press press report FOX 5 DC.

Sentence, charges, custodian statute.

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