Ex-pastor admits rape
NORWICH – Dressed in red and white stripes and handcuffed before Judge W. Howard Sullivan on Friday, the ex-pastor of a Sherburne church admitted having sexual relations with a 15-year-old former parishioner. His one sentence admittance capped more than three months of searching for and prosecution of Lewis Lee, the former church leader.
“I was intimate with the young lady,” Lee told the court.
For pleading guilty to seven counts of rape in the third degree, a felony, Lee will receive 9-and-a-third to 28 years in state prison. The sentence will run concurrent with whatever time he is given from federal courts for charges faced there.
A nation-wide manhunt for Lee began shortly after he disappeared with 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomsen on March 18. Lee was pastor at the Thomsen’s Christian Baptist Church on state Route 12 for approximately three years, and Elizabeth’s parents said an inappropriate relationship between the two formed behind their backs early on. Marsha Thomsen, the teen’s mother, said only after the 54-year-old’s capture, she learned he had given her daughter an engagement ring two years earlier.
“I was intimate with the young lady,” Lee told the court.
For pleading guilty to seven counts of rape in the third degree, a felony, Lee will receive 9-and-a-third to 28 years in state prison. The sentence will run concurrent with whatever time he is given from federal courts for charges faced there.
A nation-wide manhunt for Lee began shortly after he disappeared with 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomsen on March 18. Lee was pastor at the Thomsen’s Christian Baptist Church on state Route 12 for approximately three years, and Elizabeth’s parents said an inappropriate relationship between the two formed behind their backs early on. Marsha Thomsen, the teen’s mother, said only after the 54-year-old’s capture, she learned he had given her daughter an engagement ring two years earlier.
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