Volunteer Youth Pastor Gets 120+ Years For Child Rape

August 5, 2024 Crime, Religion

Los Angeles’s CW affiliate reports:

An Orange County church ministry volunteer was sentenced to over 120 years in prison for molesting young girls. Todd Christian Hartman, 41, of Newport Beach, was convicted of molesting several young minors and possessing hundreds of explicit images of children.

Hartman had repeatedly molested a girl beginning when she was 6 years old, officials said. He met the girl while volunteering at the Anaheim Vineyard Church children’s ministry.

He was also convicted of molesting the girl’s younger sister while taking sexually suggestive photographs as she was on his lap. Hartman was sentenced to 120 years to life plus an additional four years and four months in prison.

The Christian Post reports: 

Hartman, 41, was also convicted on two felony counts of oral copulation or sexual penetration of a child aged 10 or younger and one felony count of possession of child pornography.

The man previously volunteered for the children’s ministry at the Vineyard Church in Anaheim prior to his conviction. Church leaders eventually became concerned about Hartman repeatedly pulling children onto his lap and changed his responsibilities.

Hartman contacted the father of two of his victims in 2016 and admitted that he had repeatedly molested his daughters through his volunteer work with the children’s ministry.

“Changed his responsibilities.”



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