Tennessee:

A Clarksville youth minister has been charged with having sexual contact with minors. Jonathan Tyler Giles, the former youth minister at Spring Creek Baptist Church, has been charged with three counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, sexual battery by an authority figure and two counts of soliciting a minor.

"Everyone is concerned when allegations like these are made," said the Rev. Paul Bunger, senior pastor at Spring Creek Baptist on Trenton Road. "We are praying for all of the parties involved."

Wisconsin:

A former youth pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday on charges of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 16 in the mid-1970s. Russell J. Lesser, 64, of Bryson City, N.C., had pleaded guilty April 14 to a felony charge of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 16. Two others charges were dismissed but read in. The former pastor began his advances during a "trust" game, victim Laurie Asplund said, but then sexually assaulted her more than 40 times from summer 1974 to spring 1976. She was 14 to 16 years old.

Kentucky:

The death of a 13-year-old boy has accusations swirling around a Kentucky youth minister. James "Jamie" Mitchell was killed in a car crash, but his family is demanding answers after finding out there was much more to the accident than they were first led to believe.... On June 6 during an overnight outing with a church youth group, Jamie was killed in a terrible car crash. The man who the family says was in charge of a dozen teens during the camping trip was 24-year-old Ronald Derek Coulter, the youth minister at Big Springs Assembly of God Church in Bloomfield. Coulter told police and family members he was driving his Chevy Blazer in which Jamie and a 15-year-old boy were passengers. Coulter allegedly said a deer jumped out on a curvy stretch of Old Bloomfield Road, causing him to swerve....

But Jamie's family says the whole truth did not come out until three days after the funeral. That's when the 15-year-old boy who was in the vehicle with Jamie and Coulter went to police and told detectives Coulter wasn't driving at the time of the crash—Jamie was.... "He said, 'Derek told me at the scene of the crash not to tell anybody because both of them would get into trouble,'" Abby claimed. Detectives tell WAVE 3 when they questioned Coulter, he admitted making up the story about the deer.