Married youth pastor charged with impregnating 15-year-old

October 14, 2016 at 2:05 p.m. | Updated October 14, 2016 at 2:05 p.m.

by Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 28, 2015 file photo, mourner JeRee Wilson holds her fist in the air outside funeral services for Samuel Dubose at the Church of the Living God in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati. Dubose was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer who stopped him for a missing license plate. Volatile, racially sensitive questions of whether to charge police officers for fatal on-duty shootings, and whether jurors will convict an officer in such a case, hang over two of Ohio's largest cities. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
FILE - In this Tuesday, July 28, 2015 file photo, mourner JeRee Wilson holds her fist in the air outside funeral services for Samuel Dubose at the Church of the Living God in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati. Dubose was fatally shot by a University of Cincinnati police officer who stopped him for a missing license plate. Volatile, racially sensitive questions of whether to charge police officers for fatal on-duty shootings, and whether jurors will convict an officer in such a case, hang over two of Ohio's largest cities. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NEW PARIS, Pa. (AP) - A married Pennsylvania youth pastor has been fired and jailed over charges he impregnated a 15-year-old girl.

State police say the wife of 35-year-old Wesley Blackburn reported him last week to the pastor of Faith Brethren Bible Church in Bedford County.

The Rev. James Espenshade and the church's deacons fired Blackburn as youth pastor and called police.

Police say he's acknowledged fathering the teen's child. They say he told his wife about the relationship and asked for a divorce, which prompted her to contact the church's pastor.

Blackburn remained in the Bedford County jail Friday unable to post bond on one count of corruption of minors and 84 counts each of statutory sexual assault and indecent assault.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Blackburn.

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