Nipomo Youth Pastor Arrested for Child Molestation
By the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office
TYPE OF INCIDENT: Child Molestation Arrest
DATE AND TIME OF INCIDENT: 3-27-2023
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE: Arroyo Grande
VICTIM INFORMATION: N/A
SUSPECT INFORMATION: Jeffrey Gene York, 53, Portland, Oregon
DETAILS OF NEWS RELEASE:
In September of 2022, Sheriff’s Detectives received a report of a suspected on-going child molestation that occurred in Nipomo between 2005 and 2008.
The investigation revealed the suspect Jeffrey York, who at that time was a Youth Pastor at New Beginnings Community Church in Nipomo, had contact with a male victim and had sexually assaulted him for years.
Over the course of several months, Detectives completed a comprehensive investigation which led to obtaining an arrest warrant. At that time York was believed to be living in Portland, OR.
Detectives were in the process of apprehending York in Oregon when on 3-27-2023, during routine patrol, South Station Deputies located a vehicle registered to Jeffrey York out of Portland, OR parked in the 600 block of El Camino Real in Arroyo Grande. Deputies contacted Detectives and advised them York was in Arroyo Grande.
York was arrested and booked into County Jail on 2 counts of oral copulation by duress, 2 counts of lewd acts with a child under 14 with force and other various charges. Bail was set at $400,000.
Anyone with additional information about this case or other potential victims should contact the Sheriff's Detective Division at 805-781-4500. No further information is available at this time.
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Mar 30, 2023 11:38 AMAs a survivor….. I hope he burns in hell!!!!
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Mar 30, 2023 06:47 PMI'm sorry you went through that! What horrible person does that to another? I also hope he burns in hell!!!!
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Mar 30, 2023 11:53 PMClue: There's no such thing as hell, except maybe in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Mar 30, 2023 04:25 PMCrickets from the Qanon peanut gallery...
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Mar 30, 2023 06:06 PMGlad they got him!
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Mar 30, 2023 06:19 PMChillin, wtf does that mean? Who are you talking about man? Name some names so people can see what you’re about. I know you and a couple other regular posters here have called me that name, among others, which is ridiculous.
Pedophiles tend to find their way into places where they can get close to kids - priests, pastors, youth group/Boy Scout leaders. Personally, I’d never let my kid have anything to do with ‘the church’, or the Boy Scouts for that matter. So call me a Qanon?
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Mar 30, 2023 06:43 PMYeah, WTF does that mean? Churchgoers are QAnon? I'm a Christian so am I part of QAnon? My kids did some bible study and summer programs, are they QAnon? I have guns in my safe, will me or my kids be shooting people? No, Chillin is trolling...
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Mar 30, 2023 07:52 PMChurches have historically been incubators for child abuse and perversion. Republicans should stop worrying about drag show story hours and look more closely at churches. Uncomfortable truth.
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Mar 30, 2023 08:44 PMThe drag show stuff is about not wasting money on education. Totally different topic.
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Mar 30, 2023 09:07 PM"The drag show stuff is about not wasting money on education" Except the rethuglican cancel culture warriors want to shut these shows down on private property, attended by people that use their own money to attend, and protested by the right who has called the drag performers perverts and groomers-so it seems very low information to believe it has something to do with "wasting money on education." The church has a long, extensive and sordid history in the abuse of children.
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Mar 30, 2023 09:08 PM"The drag show stuff is about not wasting money on education" - Huh? How do drag story hours waste education funds? Or, do the drag storytellers encourage kids not to go to college? What are you even talking about?
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Mar 30, 2023 09:20 PMI’m talking about an agenda.
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Mar 30, 2023 09:34 PMWhat agenda? What does education funds have to do with drag queens reading books?
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Mar 30, 2023 10:13 PMPathetic
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Mar 31, 2023 03:58 PMAnd the Republicans trying to turn us into an autocratic theocracy with women's rights in the gutter! The CHURCH is the thing they should be regulating!!!