One-Time Sunday School Teacher Sentenced for Sexual Assault
Save Email Print
Bookmark and Share
Updated: 11:13 PM Jan 5, 2009
One-Time Sunday School Teacher Sentenced for Sexual Assault
An employee who used to work at a Baptist church in Colorado Springs was sentenced Monday.
Posted: 7:23 PM Jan 5, 2009
Reporter: Lauri Martin
Email Address: lmartin@kktv.com
width:200 and height: 150 and picwidth: 200 and pciheight: 150
Font Size:

He's guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the basement of a springs church, but the one-time Sunday school teacher is a free man Monday night. Jon Moore was sentenced Monday for sexually assaulting a church member over the course of three years.

Moore will now have to register as a sex offender. Church members say he served the church for years, but now he’s serving time, sentenced to 10 years to life on probation. The judge also sentenced him to 60 days in jail. He had already served 76 days while he was waiting for this sentencing, so he got credit for time served.

At Lighthouse Baptist Church, Jon Moore reportedly had several jobs, according to church's head pastor, James Carroll. "He worked on the web, helped with the audio and taught Sunday school."

“I want to go home and be with my family. I want to prove to my community that I’m not a monster and I'm not a threat," Moore said during his sentencing hearing. He apologized to the victim, to his church and to his wife of 28 years.

"I'm not asking for forgiveness because I can't forgive myself. I don't now if I'll ever be able to."

Moore's daughter also spoke on her father's behalf. "I believe in my heart that nothing like this will ever happen again."

A family friend of the victim says the girl hasn't been the same since. "She's afraid to go to school. She can't relate to men." Usually during a suspect's sentencing, the victim will speak, but her family moved out of state.

The head pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church said Moore's real punishment starts now when he returns to the church and faces the congregation.


Latest Comments

Posted by: one time member Location: Iraq on Feb 26, 2009 at 06:11 AM

As I sit here and Listen to the gun fire from troops test firiring their weapons to go on patroll I can only think back at the LBH that exsisted on Biju street a close church family friendly people and good sound teaching. But when the church moved into the new building something changed suits where the unspoken rule for the men clicks where forming and people where shunned it was sad many times I went to services and said hi to some one and they turned there backs on me as if not to here a greeting of a day preached from the pulpit was in order to have friends you have to be friendly they talked the talk but would never bend to except people that had a past or did not fit thier group but Jon at the right hand of the Pastor having sex in this new church with child of a member of the church where were her parents where was the pastor who did what to who and when realy who cares point the fingers where ever you want but it was the attitude of the leadership that allowed this to happen
Posted by: member Location: cos on Jan 27, 2009 at 06:02 PM

Anon ~ I completely agree with you. Both were at fault and both parties KNEW what they were doing.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 21, 2009 at 09:03 PM

unless you were there and you saw the way people acted, keep your opinion to yourself. you have no place to talk trash about someone you don't know. and ESPECIALLY when you don't know anything about the girl who RIPPED THAT FAMILY APART. she KNEW what she was doing just as well as he did. BOTH PARTIES ARE AT FAULT.
KKTV.com Features

KKTV and our Partners are proud to make Moms life easier…click here for more information

Click here for more information from our local health care specialists.

Do you have a story idea? Want to report breaking news? Call our newsroom at (719) 578-0000 or e-mail News@kktv.com.

Click Here to have KKTV come to your school!

Watch full episodes of your favorite CBS shows right here on KKTV.com.
Latest Blogs
  • EAT IT: Almonds - (Stacia Naquin)
    Keep your energy up when things get crazy. All you have to do is keep this super food handy at your desk.
  • Beware of Crooks Using Best Buy's Name (Betty Sexton)
    Crooks just sent a message to an 11News smartphone. It claims we've been selected for a $1,000 shopping spree. It's all a bunch of baloney!
  • Make a quick $250, hardly! (Betty Sexton)
    Thanks to Christine for telling me about this scam. She received a check in the mail from a group using the name American Consumer Opinion. It wasn't the legitimate Texas research company... just a crook looking to rip her off!
  • Treat It Like Thanksgiving - (Stacia Naquin)
    You don't have to sit on the sidelines at that Super Bowl party just because you vowed to make 2012 a healthier year. Here's some advice to keep yourself on track, after indulging during the season's biggest game!
  • "Be Prepared" is Good Motto for Storm Coverage
    Over in the KKTV 11 Weather Center, the radar's showing the snow moving in. Chief Meteorologist Brian Bledsoe says this storm has the potential to bring the most snow we've seen in 5 and 1/2 years, so it is "all hands on deck" and "batten down the hatches", as the newsroom makes its own preparations for this Groundhog Day Storm.