NEW JERSEY
For NJ.com
November 18, 2018
By Joe Brandt
A church youth minister who was convicted in the 1990s for sexual assault was convicted again on Friday of having inappropriate sexual contact with a teenage girl.
A jury found Shawn Butler, of Hillsborough, guilty of criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey announced.
Butler, 52, worked as a youth minister at Eternal Life Christian Center in Franklin Township and served on the church’s executive board.
At trial, Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Carver made the case that Butler improperly touched a 15-year-old girl in South Brunswick and at his home in Hillsborough several times between March and June 2014.
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