COLORADO
The Villager
BY PETER JONES
NEWS EDITOR
A youth pastor who met his victim in Littleton has received 90 days in jail and 20 years of intensive sex-offender probation for sexually touching a 13-year-old girl who came to him for counseling.
Christopher Hutchinson, 37, was convicted July 29 of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust. When he was arrested, he was youth pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Parker. Previously he had held the same position at South Fellowship Church in Littleton, where he first met the girl.
The 13-year-old had turned to her pastor for support and counseling during difficult times. He urged her to meet him at local parks, where he sexually touched her. Although Hutchinson urged his victim to keep his actions secret, she told her parents who contacted law enforcement.
The prosecution had requested a sentence of four years to life in prison.
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