PA Youth Pastor Gets 40 Years For Raping One-Year-Old

The Centre Daily Times reports:

A State College man convicted of raping a child and pressuring a witness to recant the allegations was sentenced Tuesday to at least 20 years in state prison. Jackson C. Baker, 55, was sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison. A relative of the child painted Baker through a written statement as a “threat to innocent children. “Spending countless years posing under the facade of a pastor and children’s minister is sickening to say the least,” the woman wrote.

Baker was convicted in September of raping a toddler in 2019. Central to the case was the testimony of Brandon Magusiak, who said he saw Baker forcing the child to perform oral sex. State College police said they found Baker, who has worked as a youth pastor, previously had a number of encounters with law enforcement and Children and Youth Services in multiple states.

Jackson C. Baker, 55, was convicted of felony counts of rape of a child, involuntary deviant sexual intercourse with a child, unlawful contact with a minor, a first degree misdemeanor count of indecent exposure and sentenced to 20 to 40 yrs in prison. https://t.co/OzdEpSkzlo pic.twitter.com/gODGQmrPL8

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