OHIO
Times Reporter
By Lee Morrison
TimesReporter.com staff writer
Posted Nov 08, 2012
NEW PHILADELPHIA As the judge commented that the depth of trust is equivalent to the depth of betrayal, a former youth pastor was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for a sexual relationship with a teenage girl attending his church.
Jan-Mikkel Jasper, 36, who is known as Mikkel Jasper, was charged with one count of sexual battery. The third-degree felony charge states that Jasper was a cleric, and the other person was a minor attending the church he served. He no longer is a pastor, nor associated with Alpine Bible Church near Sugarcreek.
Jasper, now of Mineral City and formerly of Dover, pleaded guilty in September to a bill of information, a process in lieu of an indictment through a county grand jury. On Wednesday, he was sentenced by Judge Elizabeth Leigh Thomakos in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court.
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