Jeff Taylor was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Stafford. A nineteen-year-old girl admitted to her employer that she had been sexually abused by Taylor since she was eleven. Her employer called the police, reporting Taylor’s abuse. They investigated and determined that the allegations were credible. They arrested Taylor who said he did it out of love.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, two counts of second-degree statutory sodomy and two counts of statutory rape in court Nov. 2022. He was sentenced to nine years.
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October 11, 2020