Prosecutors Seek Additional Sex-assault Victims of Youth Pastor

By Matt Coker
Orange County Weekly
December 4, 2015

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/prosecutors-seek-additional-sex-assault-victims-of-youth-pastor-6815720

Sean Patrick Aday could be looking at nearly 30 years in prison if convicted.

Like the Orange County Sheriff's Department before it, the district attorney's office is turning to the public to locate other potential victims of Sean Patrick Aday, the 38-year-old youth pastor who is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on charges of forcibly raping a female church member and sexually abusing three other female church members.

The resident of Lake Forest, which is also where his Grace Community Church is located, could get 29 years in state prison if he is convicted of one felony count of forcible rape, one felony count of sodomy by force, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object and force, three felony counts of sexual battery by restraint, and four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office. Aday was out of custody on $500,000 bail heading into this morning's 8:30 a.m. hearing in Santa Ana.

He is accused of assaulting the females, who ranged in age from their late teens to early 20s, at Grace Community Church, throughout Orange County and during church sponsored international trips to such locales as Moldova, Costa Rica and South Africa, according to the sheriff's department.

The OCDA updates:

Between, Jan. 1, 2008, and Nov. 6, 2015, Aday is accused of sexually assaulting Jane Doe 1 including forcible rape, sodomy, and sexual penetration by foreign object and force.

Between July 1, 2015, and Oct. 1, 2015, the defendant is accused of sexually touching Jane Doe 2 against her will while she was restrained and inducing her to sexually touch him.

On four occasions between Nov. 30, 2014, and Oct. 1, 2015, Aday is accused of committing sexual battery on Jane Doe 2, Jane Doe 3, and Jane Doe 4.

The first alleged victim contacted the sheriff's department in October, and after an investigation that continues to this day, Aday was arrested on Nov. 7. Because the youth pastor had access to so many potential victims, the OCDA asks anyone with additional information or who believes they may have been a victim is to contact Supervising District Attorney Investigator Mark Gutierrez at 714.347.8794.