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	Court Docket: Jury Convicts Fenton Youth Pastor of Inappropriately Touching Boy Livingston Daily August 18, 2009 http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20090818/NEWS01/908180321/Court+Docket++Jury+convicts+Fenton+youth+pastor+of+inappropriately+touching+boy A Livingston County jury convicted a Fenton youth pastor of inappropriately touching the son of a family friend. Randy Strong faces sentencing Sept. 17 after the 12-panel jury convicted him of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for inappropriately touching a then-10-year-old boy in 2002. The now 17-year-old victim testified that he told a counselor and his parents about the abuse, which began with massages and escalated to touching. Strong testified that the incidents did not occur. On cross-examination, he told Assistant Prosecutor Pamela Maas that he had "a lot of respect" for the teen and his parents and that he would not do what he was accused. If he had, Strong said, he would have accepted the plea deal to a misdemeanor that the prosecutor offered. Maas told the court that no such plea deal was offered. Court records stated that Strong was a part-time youth pastor in Durand when the incidents occurred while he was staying with the Livingston County family. He is now listed as the director of the Region 3 Young Adult Campus Ministry for St. John the Evangelist parish in Fenton.
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