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[email protected] The 27-year-old married youth pastor in Modesto con- soled the troubled girl, whose father had just died. Eventually, he kissed her. Then he fondled her. She was 14. 1 Over the next 2 ⁄2 years, Brad Tebbutt sexually abused Jennifer Graves in his office at First Baptist Church, a prominent Mo- desto congrega- tion, and in his Brad car. After school, Tebbutt before his wife returned from work, he would have sex with her in his home, she said. At the end of her junior year at Beyer High School, in 1988, Tebbutt and his wife moved away. Arecent publication boasts of his 30-year career as a youth pastor, and he now works in aseniors ministry for the International House of Prayer of Kansas City. PETER HALEY
[email protected] How Tebbutt kept his jobs at Jennifer Roach, nowordained in the Anglican Church and acounselor forsexual abuse victims in Washington state, speaks of being sexually churches and religious schools, abused by Brad Tebbutt,then ayouth pastor at First Baptist Church in Modesto, in the1980s. She says she was14yearsold when it began.