(ChurchLeaders) Jason Greathouse, former Alabama youth pastor who was charged with raping a 14-year-old student, will not face jail time after reaching a plea deal with Coffee County prosecutors. Greathouse will serve two years of unsupervised probation and will not have to register as a sex offender.
Greathouse’s charges were downgraded from felony second-degree rape, which could carry a jail sentence of 20 years, to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which is a misdemeanor.
Greathouse had married his victim at the urging of her parents after it was discovered that she was pregnant. (ChurchLeaders has chosen not to identify her by name in order to protect her privacy.) At the time of the rape in 2008, Greathouse was 24 years old.