Youth minister gets 4 years for having sex with a minor

Jeremy Workman

November 17, 2008

Posted by Jesse Tinsley

Plain Dealer Reporter

CLEVELAND -- Jeremy Workman, 33, of Olmsted Falls was sentenced to four years in prison for having sex with a minor four years ago when he was head of the youth ministry at Berea Baptist Church.

Workman was 29 at the time and the girl was 15, said Ryan Miday, a spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office.

In September, Workman pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, a third-degree felony. Workman was indicted in April after it became apparent he had sex with the woman when she was a minor.

The woman recently gave birth and Workman is the child's father, said Miday.

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