Evangelical drama director on probation for corruption of minors
From the AP; hat tip Right Reverend Rabbi Judah
The director of a nonprofit evangelical drama company pleaded no contest to two counts of corruption of minors."I'm not contesting those facts, even though, sir, they are not true," Paul Daniel Neidermyer III, 59, of Manheim Township, told Lancaster County Judge David L. Ashworth on Monday. "I'm pleading this way to bring closure to my life."
Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey A. Conrad accused Neidermyer, director of Maranatha Productions Inc., of conducting nude acting classes with two 17-year-old boys in his basement.
"I wasn't in the country. I was in Britain. I brought 45 witnesses from Sweden, England and the U.S. because I was thinking I was going to trial," Neidermyer said.
Ashworth sentenced Neidermyer to five years probation, fined him $500, and prohibited him from having unsupervised contact with anyone under the age of 18.
Bill McCartney
