WI Pastor Gets 45 Days In Underage Prostitution Sting

The Hudson Star-Observer reports:

On Wednesday, Washington County District Judge Siv Mjanger in Minnesota sentenced Jason James Taylor, formerly a pastor at Calvary Chapel Solid Rock in New Richmond, to serve 45 days in Washington County Jail for his conviction on a single felony count of prostitution involving a teen 16 to 17 years old.

Undercover agents posing as minors or sex buyers on social media arranged to meet with adults in-person where they were arrested. The former pastor was accused of visiting an established commercial sex website where he selected a girl who appeared to be under 18 based on a “decoy” photo.

Taylor will be placed on supervised probation for three years and is required to enroll in and successfully complete a sex offender treatment program. Upon successful completion of probation, the offense would be reduced to a misdemeanor conviction.

Read the full article. Taylor, who is married with four children, was fired by the his Wisconsin church last year upon his arrest.

Undercover agents posed as minors or sex buyers on social media and made arrangements to meet the adults. When the adults arrived, they were arrested…

One of the men, Jason James Taylor, is a pastor at Calvary Chapel Solid Rock in New Richmond, Wis.https://t.co/i4JUFX9OiA

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