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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Nassau, Bahamas · 2022

Bahamas: youth pastor convicted of sexually assaulting a girl taken into his family's care, then jailed again for three more victims

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

youth pastor, church youth ministry leader

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Albury was a youth pastor who used his position leading church youth ministry to gain trust with families and unsupervised access to their daughters; the first victim's parents 'welcomed him into their family' specifically because of his role as their church's youth pastor, and the subsequent victims were girls within the same congregational youth-ministry orbit.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-10-01 · jury trial verdict and sentencing

    Supreme Court of the Bahamas. A jury convicted youth pastor Colton Albury of two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and two counts of indecent assault against a girl whose parents had welcomed him into their family at age 16. Senior Justice Bernard Turner sentenced him to eight years' imprisonment for unlawful sexual intercourse and four years for indecent assault, served concurrently, effective from his July 2022 remand.

  2. 2023-09-01 · guilty plea and sentencing

    Magistrate's Court, Nassau. Before Senior Magistrate Kara Turnquest-Deveaux, Albury pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting three further girls, aged 11, 15 and 17, in 2017, and was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, to run concurrently with the earlier eight-year sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • pastoral and youth-ministry authority
  • quasi-familial trust
  • access to minors through church youth programs

Primary record

Sources

The Nassau Guardian, 'Youth pastor sentenced to three years for indecent assault of three girls' (2023).

Reports that youth pastor Colton Albury pleaded guilty before Senior Magistrate Kara Turnquest-Deveaux to indecently assaulting three girls aged 11, 15 and 17 in 2017, receiving a three-year sentence to run concurrently with the eight-year sentence he was already serving for the earlier jury conviction.

The Nassau Guardian, 'Youth pastor convicted of sexual assault' (2022).

Reports the jury's guilty verdict against Colton Albury on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and two counts of indecent assault, and Senior Justice Bernard Turner's sentence of eight years and four years to run concurrently, describing how the victim's family took Albury in as a teenager because he was their church's youth pastor.

Bahamas Press, 'Youth pastor makes jail again after molesting three teens...his total so far is eight!' (2023).

Local reporting on the same defendant's second sentencing, confirming the concurrent-sentence structure and the total of victims across both proceedings.

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