Youth pastor admits to sexual exploitation

A youth pastor from Rothesay has admitted to sexually exploiting two teenage boys.

The Telegraph-Journal reports 34 year old Ryan Hachey was to begin a trial yesterday on multiple charges but changed his plea to guilty of sexual exploitation. The former Kennebecasis Valley High School teacher and volunteer youth pastor at a valley-area church, admitted to the offence involving one boy at an unidentified church in the Rothesay/Quispamsis area and another who was a student at an unnamed high school in the Sussex area.

A sentencing hearing will be held December 21st then Hachey will be sentenced January 4th.