The former pastor had already admitted to sexually abusing one of his teenage congregants. He had agreed to serve 10 years in prison. He said nothing as he waited Thursday for a judge to pronounce the sentence.
Her own beliefs as a weapon. When the sexual encounters started, Samuel Sutter was a year-old married pastor at Openwater Church in Odessa.
Sutter's responsibilities included ministering to the church members in middle school, high school and college, and that was how the two met. They had chatted on the phone and on Twitter.
Over time, they started getting together outside church, at coffee shops and malls. The sex began in the fall of The mother spoke of Sutter overpowering the girl, putting his hands on her neck.
She spoke of him forcing her to take morning-after pills to prevent her from becoming pregnant. She spoke of him threatening to leave her, if she didn't do what he wanted, to pursue one of her friends.
