A now-disgraced former youth pastor within the metropolis of Plover, Wisconsin has agreed to a plea take care of prosecutors amid accusations of “repeated sexual assault of a child.”
Jordan Huffman (pictured above) had been dealing with eight counts of first-degree repeated sexual assault of a kid beneath the age of 13, little one enticement, and bail leaping. He was working as a youth pastor at Woodlands Church in Plover — which is in central Wisconsin about 85 miles west of Green Bay — when he was accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy he was imagined to be mentoring.
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According to court docket paperwork, Huffman allegedly assaulted the unnamed sufferer greater than a dozen instances over a two-year span starting in 2017. The assaults didn’t happen on the church, in line with the boy, who first reported the alleged incidents to his father. But Huffman’s place as a mentor to younger individuals on the small-town church was central to the interactions.
Huffman was being investigated by cops in Plover and a number of other different Wisconsin jurisdictions when it’s stated he fled the state final summer time. He was arrested in Florida final August, extradited to Wisconsin, and remanded to custody. He was launched on bond in April.
Currently, in line with WSAW-TV, he’s being tracked by GPS monitoring. As for the plea deal, which occurred late final week, prosecutors in Portage County agreed to drop six of the eight sexual assault counts in change for a responsible plea on the opposite two for “repeated sexual assault of a child”.
But that’s not the one surprising case with Huffman. According to a WBAY, late final month, Huffman caught comparable prices from a separate incident within the metropolis of Fox Crossing, Wisconsin. In that case, Winnebago County prosecutors declare Huffman had “inappropriate conversations” over Snapchat with one other 12-year-old sufferer earlier than “picking him up and taking him to a hotel.”
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The boy in that case turned on his cellular phone location and was in a position to alert police to his whereabouts after allegedly convincing Huffman to take him house. While Huffman was driving him house, per WBAY, police “performed a high-risk traffic stop on the vehicle” and re-arrested Huffman. Those prices of kid sexual assault and enticement are nonetheless winding their method via court docket.
As for Huffman’s aforementioned plea deal, WSAW-TV experiences his sentencing date is October 3. It is unclear how a lot jail time he’ll face.
Absolutely disgusting throughout…
[Image via Fox Crossing Police Department]