CHRISTIAN PASTOR WHO loveUALLY MOLESTED BOY CONVICTED OF INDECENCY

Pastor convicted of indecency

By Ben Tinsley Star-Telegram Staff Writer The Fort Worth Star-Telegram Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Fort Worth - The pastor and principal of a Haltom City Baptist church and school was convicted Monday of loveually molesting a boy he had mentored for years.

A Tarrant County jury deliberated for about five hours before convicting Jay Preston Connell of Landmark Baptist Church and Landmark Christian Academy of three counts of indecency with a child by contact and one count of indecent exposure to a child.

Connell's sentencing hearing begins at 9 a.m. today.

The boy Connell was convicted of molesting is now 16 and was molested for at least five years, prosecutor Steve Jumes said. Connell started mentoring the boy after the boy's father died several years ago. The boy last attended Connell's school in April 2004, Jumes said.

After the verdict was handed down, state District Judge Elizabeth Berry revoked the 53-year-old Fort Worth resident's $25,000 bail and placed him in the Tarrant County Jail.

Defense attorney Walt Cleveland said he was "flabbergasted."

"I don't understand it," Cleveland said, declining to elaborate.

Indecency with a child by contact is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Indecent exposure to a child is a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

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