A former Lake Forest church youth pastor is expected to be sentenced to two years in prison next month after he pleaded guilty to sex charges involving four women members of his congregation.
Sean Patrick Aday, 39, of Lake Forest was a youth pastor at Grace Community Church in Lake Forest when he attacked the women either on church grounds or during a trip overseas, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Aday accepted an “appropriate resolution” plea deal with prosecutors, as he could have faced up to 29 years in prison had he gone to trial and been convicted.
The former pastor, who is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 9, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of sexual battery and two misdemeanor counts of touching an intimate part of another person, according to court records.
Aday accepted a plea deal from prosecutors in which more serious charges of rape, forced sodomy and sexual penetration by a foreign object were dismissed, according to defense attorney John Barnett.
“We felt this was an appropriate resolution to the case,” Barnett said of Aday’s guilty plea Friday.
— City News Service