Youth pastor pleads guilty to sex with 13-year-old girl

TEXAS
Valley Central

DALLAS (AP) — A 37-year-old former minister at a North Texas church faces up to life in prison for luring a girl in his youth group into having sex with him.

Derek Hutter pleaded guilty Wednesday to enticement of a minor in the case involving a 13-year-old girl.

Hutter, who was arrested last fall, remains in custody pending sentencing by a federal judge in Dallas.

Authorities say Hutter was a youth pastor at South Garland Baptist Church and married when he began an online and cellphone relationship with the teen.

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