INDIANA
WANE
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced the former pastor of a northwestern Indiana megachurch to 12 years in prison who pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a teenage member of the parish.
Senior District Judge Rudy Lozano also sentenced 55-year-old Jack Schaap of Crete, Ill., to five years of supervised release Wednesday. Schaap pleaded guilty in September to transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Schaap was pastor of the 15,000-member First Baptist Church of Hammond for 11 years when he was fired in July.
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