CO Christian Filmmaker Pleads Guilty In Child Sex Sting

Ministry Watch reports:

Steve Greisen, a Christian filmmaker and a veteran of the Jesus movement’s 1970s-era music scene, pled guilty Wednesday in Colorado Springs to a criminal attempt to solicit online sex with a minor. In a plea deal, Greisen agreed to register as a sex offender and spend five years in Colorado’s supervision program for sex offenders. He had been arrested on charges for inducement of child prostitution, patronizing a prostituted child and sexual assault on a child.

As Ministry Watch reported, Greisen was arrested Sept. 7 after arranging to pay an undercover detective $170 to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Greisen, who is 68, runs two Christian film companies: Exploration Films Distribution, which says it manages distribution of over 400 films, Reel Productions, which released the biblical thriller, “The Mystery of The Ark of The Covenant.”

Read the full article. Greisen had faced a 12-year sentence.