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By Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on March 20, 2015

HACKENSACK — A former pastor at a Wyckoff church exchanged sexually explicit messages and videos with girls in a youth group he supervised and had sexual encounters with two of the teens, authorities said today.

David Hayman, 37, was arrested Thursday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement. He was charged with two counts of sexual assault and five counts of child endangerment.

Hayman exchanged the videos with two girls in the youth group beginning when they were 16 years old and “engaged in inappropriate sexual activity,” with the teens, Molinelli said. He traded explicit text messages with two other girls when they were 15 and another when she was 16.

“All of the victims were members of a church youth group, of which Hayman was the pastor and…