LANCASTER, Pa. — The attorney for an Assemblies of God youth pastor who staged a church youth group kidnapping as a lesson on religious persecution said his client will fight the charges.
Andrew Jordan blindfolded the teens in March, bound their wrists and drove them in a cargo van to a dingy basement where they overheard mock torture.
His attorney, William DeStefano, said there was no evidence anyone hurt the girl whose complaint led to charges of assault and false imprisonment against the Glad Tidings Assembly of God youth pastor.
Dauphin County prosecutors said the half-hour ordeal included interrogation and staged torture using power tools.
DeStefano told the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era he can challenge the false imprisonment charge because the girl never tried to flee her fake captors.