Youth pastor sentenced to one year in jail for sex abuse

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A youth pastor found guilty of sex abuse was sentenced to one year in jail Friday.

A judge gave Jason Wolk the special sex offender alternative. He'll get therapy once he's out, but if he violates that he'll go behind bars for four and a half years.

But the victim's mother, Star Trump, said during Wolk's sentencing that she doesn't believe that's enough.

"Every day I cry. I try to be strong for my son," Trump said during an emotional three-minute speech in which Wolk never looked at her.

"I know in life, he'll never trust a male again," she said.

Trump said her son won't step foot in a church ever again. He and another teen met Wolk at Wesleyan Church in Northeast Vancouver where he was a volunteer mentoring the boys. But they said he touched them both inappropriately several times, even in Wolk’s bedroom.

Trump's son went through a year of counseling "but there is no counseling that will ever replace the innocence in my child," she said.

And the distraught mother said the sentence is just not enough.

"He's going to suffer, both of them are going to suffer for the rest of their lives," Trump said after the sentencing. "It's not about Jason suffering; it's about what he took from my child."

As Wolk was led out of the courtroom, he finally looked at the family, a family that said their lives have changed forever.

"The change in my child is something I can't even register in my mind at all," Trump said. "And it will never be the same for any of us in this family."

The judge said that if Wolk just went to jail and didn't get treatment, there would be no question in his mind that there will be other victims.