Pastor gets four years' jail for molesting children

By Chyung Eun-ju, Park Si-soo

A pastor has been jailed for four years for molesting two female children attending his wife’s child center.

He was also ordered to attend an 80-hour anti-sexual-crime education course, according to Busan District Court, Monday.

The court said the pastor groped the children multiple times between 2011 and 2012. He sexually harassed them in his room at the center, in the library or in a van, according to court documents.

“As a pastor and the husband of the manager of the child center, he should be someone who protects children from sexual harassment,” the ruling statement said.

”The children are suffering from sexual humiliation and emotional distress.”