North Jackson pastor goes to prison on rape, GSI charges

January 23, 2013 at 10:17a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — A North Jackson minister is going to prison for 10 years for rape and gross sexual imposition against a 19-year-old mentally disabled woman who lived in his church's homeless shelter.

Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court today imposed the sentence on the Rev. Ronald Lee Pyles, 59, pastor of Victory Harvest Ministry on Palmyra Road.

Judge Evans found Pyles guilty of both charges in a nonjury trial earlier this month.

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