Mobile Pastor Cederick McMillan Convicted of Sexually Abusing Teen Relative, Faces 20 Years
An Alabama jury convicted a local pastor, Cederick McMillan of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
They found Cederick McMillan, 27, guilty of second-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.
McMillan is pastor of New Birth Community Church in Mobile and helped found Prichard Preparatory Academy. The authorities accused him of 'sexually touching and having oral sex with a girl when she was 14 years old in 2007.'
McMillan faces a prison from 2 to 20 years in prison on the sodomy charge. Before the accusations, the pastor had no criminal record nor did he have a reputation for violence. The pastor's attorney is hoping there is a way to punish him without prison time.
The defense noted that the police recieved a complaint against his clergyman clieht nearly 3 years after the alleged incident was said to have happened. It's almost like the defense wanted to believe it was alright for a pastor to have sex with a teenage girl.
He argued to the jury that the contact was consensual and occurred after the girl’s 17th birthday. He said his client had broken up with the girl’s mother and later had a fling with the daughter. McMillian served as the Prichard Preparatory Academy’s headmaster from 2005 until Sept. 30, 2009.
