Former pastor sentenced in 2nd sex case

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A former pastor was sentenced Tuesday in the second of two sex assault cases.

In Kent County Circuit Court, Tedd Butler received one year in jail, which will run concurrent with his Ottawa County sentence of one year. The sentencing rulings were part of a plea deal.

Butler most recently worked at Gospel Light Baptist Church in Walker.

He admitted to sexually molesting a boy 50 to 60 times between January 1984 and the end of 1992 at the now defunct Landmark Baptist Church in Algoma Township in Kent County. The child was between 3 and 9 at the time. Butler was a youth minister at Landmark and 19 years old then.

Butler was arraigned in this case on two counts of first-degree sexual assault -- sexual penetration.

On Jan. 23 Butler stood silent during a sentencing hearing in an Ottawa County courtroom. He improperly touched a 5-year-old boy in 2006 at the pastor's former home on Leonard Street in Tallmadge Township. Butler pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct in this case.