Former youth pastor pleads guilty to statutory rape

TENNESSEE
The Eagle

Associated Press

LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) — A former Lebanon youth pastor has been sentenced to spend six years behind bars after pleading guilty to two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure.

The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/1RLHV0j ) reports that 44-year-old Christopher Douglas Ross of Mt. Juliet was sentenced to three years on each of the two counts Monday in a Wilson County courtroom.

Ross, who oversaw a youth group while a pastor at Fairview Church, had been initially charged with 10 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure in January 2015.

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