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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, 2009Reporter: Lauri Martin Email Address: lmartin@kktv.com |
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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.
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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
Anon ~ I completely agree with you. Both were at fault and both parties KNEW what they were doing.
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.
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