Now this is crazy. Isnt youth group suppose to be a place where people go to learn about the lord? Well, apparently its a place of sin in Pennsylvania. A pastor is now facing charges after he impregenated a 15-year-old girl from his youth group while having a seven month relationship with her.
Wesley Blackburn’s wife says that her husband asked for a divorce after he told her that he was indeed sleeping with the 15-year-old. Senior Pastor Jim Espenshade fired Blackburn for the church and called police. He was then charged on hundreds of counts of statutory sexual assault and indecent assault.
Pastor Espenshade says,
“I don’t know this man. The man that got arrested, I don’t know him. I was shocked. Absolutely shocked. You work with him and you’re there and you’re thinking, ‘How could this happen? How could he do this?”
Blackburn did not want to discuss the incident with the senior pastor. Espenshade went on to say,
“We didn’t even care what he had to say. We don’t tolerate this kind of stuff. It’s inappropriate. It’s reprehensible and there was never a discussion of anything else. And I don’t mean this in a terrible way: We didn’t care what the community was going to say about us, we had to do what was right.”
Blackburn is now facing 84 felony counts of statutory sexual assault, 84 misdemeanor counts of indecent assault and one felony count of corruption of minors. He now has a $200,000 bail.
Source: NYDailyNews
