KOMO
August 16, 2011
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| Dirk Jackson appears at his sentencing on Aug. 16, 2011. |
A pastor who pleaded guilty to sex charges in a case involving a young student at a Christian school was sentenced to over three years in jail Tuesday.
Prosecutors say the 41-month sentence for Dirk Jackson was at the high end of the standard rage.
Jackson's victim is now 21, but she said she was molested by him when she was 12. At the time, she was a sixth grader and one of Jackson's students at Manchester Christian Academy.
Now a woman, she said no one believed her back then and she kept the sexual contact secret for all these years. But when she recently saw Jackson at a different church, she says she feared he had access to other young potential victims and reported her allegations to the sheriff's office.
Jackson originally pleaded not guilty to two counts of child rape, but on July 6, he accepted a plea deal from the prosecutor and pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent liberties.
After his prison time is completed, he'll have to undergo heavily-monitored community custody for an additional three years and register as a sex offender.
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