A former Lake Forest church pastor was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of raping one of his congregants as well as sexually assaulting three others, prosecutors said.
Sean Patrick Aday, 38, of Lake Forest was a youth pastor at Grace Community Church in Lake Forest when he was accused of attacking the women either on church grounds or a trip overseas, according to Roxi Fyad of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
One woman alleges she was fondled against her will while she was restrained and “induced” into touching him in a sexual manner between July and October, prosecutors allege.
Aday is also accused of sexual battery on four separate occasions with three victims between November 30 of last year and Oct. 1 of this year, according to prosecutors.
The woman who alleges she was raped contacted sheriff’s deputies on Oct. 1, Fyad said. Aday was arrested Nov. 7 and was charged Nov. 20, Fyad said.
Aday, who was out of custody in lieu of $500,000 bail, could face up to 29 years in prison if convicted at trial. He is charged with one count each of rape, sodomy by force, sexual penetration by a foreign object, and three counts of sexual battery by restraint, all felonies. He also faces four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery.
— Wire reports