Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.
When her parents’ home was damaged and unlivable, she was invited to stay with Myers and his wife. For three years, he repeatedly sexually assaulted her. When she was 18 he discovered she had a boyfriend. He showed her two bullets saying this was what he had to do. She threw his gun into the woods and had sex with him, though she did not think of it as consensual since she was afraid he would kill both of them.
Ten years later she went to the police. Her diary corroborated her allegations and after all this time, the police searched the woods and found the gun that traced back to Myers. He was arrested in October, 2022 on three counts of Class B felony sexual misconduct with a minor, one count of Class C felony sexual misconduct with a minor and four counts of Class D felony child seduction.
A trial is schedule for August 2023.
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