PROSECUTORS SEEK ADDITIONAL SEX-ASSAULT VICTIMS OF YOUTH PASTOR

CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly

BY MATT COKER
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2015

Like the Orange County Sheriff’s Department before it, the district attorney’s office is turning to the public to locate other potential victims of Sean Patrick Aday, the 38-year-old youth pastor who is scheduled to be arraigned this morning on charges of forcibly raping a female church member and sexually abusing three other female church members.

The resident of Lake Forest, which is also where his Grace Community Church is located, could get 29 years in state prison if he is convicted of one felony count of forcible rape, one felony count of sodomy by force, one felony count of sexual penetration by foreign object and force, three felony counts of sexual battery by restraint, and four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s office. Aday was out of custody on $500,000 bail heading into this morning’s 8:30 a.m. hearing in Santa Ana.

He is accused of assaulting the females, who ranged in age from their late teens to early 20s, at Grace Community Church, throughout Orange County and during church sponsored international trips to such locales as Moldova, Costa Rica and South Africa, according to the sheriff’s department.

The OCDA updates:

* Between, Jan. 1, 2008, and Nov. 6, 2015, Aday is accused of sexually assaulting Jane Doe 1 including forcible rape, sodomy, and sexual penetration by foreign object and force.
* Between July 1, 2015, and Oct. 1, 2015, the defendant is accused of sexually touching Jane Doe 2 against her will while she was restrained and inducing her to sexually touch him.
* On four occasions between Nov. 30, 2014, and Oct. 1, 2015, Aday is accused of committing sexual battery on Jane Doe 2, Jane Doe 3, and Jane Doe 4.

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