Tate Pigg, former youth pastor for Pinnacle Community Church in Amarillo, Texas, was arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child. Amarillo Globe-News reports:
Tate Jeffrey Pigg, 22, of Amarillo, formerly a youth pastor at Pinnacle Community Church, was arrested on April 8 following a March incident with an underage girl, according to police. He was booked in the Randall County Jail but was released on the same day.
Pigg is facing charges of sexual assault of a child and purchasing or furnishing alcohol to a minor from an incident that happened on March 13, according to records.
According to Texas State Law, sexual assault of a child involves sexual activity with a person under 17 but older than 14. The crime, if indicted and convicted, could be punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Purchasing or furnishing alcohol to a minor in Texas is considered a Class A misdemeanor and could be punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $4,000, if indicted and convicted.
Pinnacle Community Church’s lead pastor Kurt Oheim confirmed Wednesday that Pigg had formerly worked as a youth minister with the church, but said Pigg has not been affiliated with the church, or seen at church services, since late in 2016.
Bruce Gerencser, 66, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 45 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Would it be juvenile to suggest he change his first name to “Ima”?
So a youth pastor furnished alcohol to a minor and then took advantage of that minor sexually. Huh. Color me unsurprised.
He’s married with a new baby, Christian Singer, and family oriented.. I’m so surprised this happened.
I bet there’s a lot more of these kinds of guys, that they have double lives. I can just imagine what the wife and his family are going through right now………..
https://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/TX14333386/Tate-Jeffrey-Pigg.html This Tate Jeffrey Pigg was convicted in 2019. I believe he got ten years of probation and he has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. At Least that is what a search of the Texas Public Sex Offender Website indicates.