A Hoquiam pastor found guilty of second-degree child molestation has been sentenced to 15 months in jail.

Adair Krack was charged with two counts of child molestation in September 2016. One count was dismissed and he was found guilty of one count by Grays Harbor County Superior Court Judge David Edwards in May. Krack had been free on bond until he was found guilty and he was then taken into custody.

He was sentenced on June 23.

The standard range for sentencing, according to court documents, is 15-20 months. The maximum term was 10 years.

The sentence includes 36 months of community custody when Krack will have to report to a community corrections officer, notify the Department of Corrections if he moves or gets a new job, and other restrictions. He’ll have to follow sex offrnder registration requirements and can’t have contact with any juveniles younger than 18 or have “employment or position(s), voluntary or otherwise, related to or involving children of any kind.”

Krack can have no contact with the victim for 10 years, and a no-contact order was filed with the sentencing.

Krack was a pastor at the First Baptist Church in Hoquiam and was accused of sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl during a weeklong Bible camp in the summer of 2016.

Krack waived a jury trial and opted for what is known is a “bench” trial in which the judge decides the case.

According to court documents, Krack knew the victim’s family from when he was assistant pastor at an Oregon church. He and his wife would often babysit the victim’s eldest sister, and the defendant referred to Krack as her “Papa” and “views him as a grandfather, even though they have no actual relation.”

The victim and her sibling began attending Krack’s Bible camp in August of 2010 when the sisters were 7 and 9 years old. The victim’s family picked her up, along with her siblings from Krack’s home in Elma in early August 2016 after a weeklong stay at his Bible camp. The victim later told her mother that Krack had been touching her inappropriately, having told a friend the same thing a few days earlier. She said most of the touching occurred in Krack’s home and had been happening since they started attending Krack’s Bible camp.

The victim’s father arranged to meet with Krack and confronted him about the allegations. According to the father’s statement, when Krack was asked about the inappropriate touching he “remained quiet for approximately five minutes and did not immediately deny anything.” Krack’s eventual response was “that if he was guilty of anything it was loving them too much.” He also stated “that he only had (the victim’s) best interests at heart and that if he needed to keep (the victim) from going through unnecessary stress, he would just plead guilty.”

According to the victim’s parents, they asked the victim’s two younger siblings if Krack had ever touched them inappropriately, to which they made no disclosures. However, when the parents asked their eldest daughter, then 20 years old, she responded by bursting into tears and saying Krack had molested her starting when she was about 5 years old.

A warrant for Krack’s arrest was sought and granted Sept. 12. The trial was held in May.