Minnesota:

28-year-old Jeffery Frodermann, of Menahga, accepted a plea deal for having sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl. Frodermann was a youth minister at Sebeka United Methodist Church. According to the Menahga Chief of Police Scott Koennicke, "Frodermann will likely spend six months behind bars and another six on house arrest." Frodermann will also have a nine year probation period and have to register as a sex offender, but Quentin Ness, who lives across the street from the church and has three daughters of his own, does not believe the punishment was harsh enough. "If it were my daughters I'd want him to get life. Not six months."

Pennsylvania:

Two Aston men, one with ties to a church youth group in New Jersey and the other a Neumann University sophomore, are behind bars on possession and dissemination of child pornography and related offenses. Timothy Earl Bottomley, 24, of Scott Lane, and Brett M. Fenimore, 21, of the 3700 block of Concord Road, were remanded to the county prison.... They were among four men charged with or arraigned on multiple counts of possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography and/or criminal use of communication facility. Bottomley, who was taken into custody without incident at his Aston home Monday night, had told investigators “he was a youth minister at a church in New Jersey."

Missouri:

Kansas City police have found that a youth minister driving a group of four other teens from the church was traveling 86 miles per hour before a deadly accident. The accident occurred Oct. 11 at 68th Street and North Ames Avenue.... Mahoney said in this case, the youth minister was going an estimated 86 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour zone at the time of impact. Kelsey Morris, 16, was critically injured in the crash and died the next day in the hospital.

Today's YPW compiled by Slog tipper Rick, who adds that there is hope for America's wayward youth pastors...

Mann said he told Clements he used to play saxophone and Clements invited him to jam with his band, the Bill Clements Group. In 2006, Mann had what he calls a “dramatic theological shift” and began writing songs—some about religion, as well as other topics. Mann, 31, was raised Baptist in Eckhart, Ind., and went to college to become a youth minister, but said he is now an atheist.