By Holly Danks
The Oregonian
April 5, 2007
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/04/former_police_fire_chaplain_pl.html
Hillsboro — Richard E. Sacks, chaplain for the Forest Grove police and fire departments and pastor of Calvary Chapel Forest Grove, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of sexual harassment for allegedly having inappropriate contact with a woman from his congregation.
Sacks, 54, was charged in March with the two misdemeanor counts.
Megan Johnson, Washington County deputy district attorney, said Sacks kissed the woman in 2005 when she was 21 and told the woman's mother when she confronted him that he would not do it again. But in December, Johnson said, after regaining the family's trust, an acquaintance found Sacks in his apartment with his arms around the woman and his hands down her pants.
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Sacks' attorney said Wednesday that his client was sorry, had resigned his religious positions and was training to be a truck driver.
Washington County Circuit Judge Timothy P. Alexander sentenced Sacks to three years' formal probation and suspended a 90-day jail sentence.
Sacks also must undergo sex offender evaluation and treatment and obey all laws while on probation or serve the jail time.
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