Jacob Woods was a youth pastor at Rutherford County Baptist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee. He was arrested in May 2022 and indicted on five counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. According to the victim’s family, he began grooming her when she was fifteen and began raping her when she was sixteen while on a church camp trip in Indiana. He continued for two years until the family learned of it.
A relative revealed that she got him Father’s Day cards, saying “you’re the father I never had and he was trying to step into that father figure in her life and somehow took it too far.” Except fathers don’t rape their daughters — or are not supposed to.
On May 30th, 2023, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of attempted statutory rape. He is currently incarcerated.
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