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By Ashley Ludwig (Patch Staff) – December 9, 2016
LAKE FOREST, CA — A former Lake Forest youth pastor was sentenced Friday to two years in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for sexual battery of four female church members.
Sean Patrick Aday, a 39-year-old Lake Forest resident, pleaded guilty on Nov. 4, to two felony counts of sexual battery by restraint and two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office chief of staff, Susan Kang Schroeder.
“At the time of the crime, Aday was working as a youth pastor at Grace Community Church in Lake Forest,” she said. “The defendant sexually assaulted four adult female church members on church property or during church trips overseas.”
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, between Jan. 1, 2008, and Nov. 6, 2015, Aday sexually touched four women against their will for the purpose of the defendant’s sexual arousal, gratification and abuse.
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