A Columbia pastor pleaded guilty last month in Tennessee to sexual battery and received two years supervised probation, according to public records obtained from the Circuit Court of Sevier County, Tennessee.
The case against Isaac Lee Brown, 62, 1310 Martin Luther King Drive, dates back to his arrest in Marion County in 2015 after a 2015 personal trip that Brown took to Gatlinburg, as previously reported in The Columbian-Progress.
The pastor of Owens Chapel Missionary Baptist Church pleaded guilty April 9 in Sevier County Circuit Court, according to court documents. He received a two-year suspended sentence and was also ordered to pay court costs and register as a sex offender.
“Y’all can’t ask me nothing, OK. Not nothing,” Brown said when reached for comment by phone Monday before hanging up.
A grand jury had originally indicted Brown for “sexual battery by an authority figure.”
The indictment alleged that on July 31, 2015, Brown had “sexual contact” with a girl between the ages of 14 and 17 and that he was in a position of trust that he used to initiate the contact.
Brown pleaded guilty to the offense of “sexual battery.”
This newspaper has a policy not to identify alleged victims of sex crimes.
Prosecutors in Tennessee could not be reached for comment.
