HAMMOND | Former Hammond megachurch Pastor Jack Schaap was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday for his sexual relationship with a 17-year-old parish girl. The allegations against Schaap ...

HAMMOND | With an orange jail jumpsuit and leg shackles replacing the suit and tie he wore to a previous hearing, disgraced Pastor Jack Schaap admitted Wednesday to having three sexual encounters ...

HAMMOND | A federal judge denied a petition from Jack Schaap, former First Baptist Church of Hammond pastor, to overturn his 12-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a 16-year-old church member.

Jack Schaap, 56, was sentenced in March 2013 during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Hammond. He pleaded guilty in September 2012 to having the then-17-year-old girl transported to Illinois and ...

RALEIGH, N.C. | A former Hammond Baptist Church deacon was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $16.5 million in restitution after being convicted in federal court ...

Gone, but not forgotten, the saying goes. Hyles' 45-year-old son-in-law successor, the Rev. Jack Schaap, doesn't mind one bit. He's parlayed his mentor's humble handiwork to make the church larger ...

CHICAGO — A former Hammond resident claims in a federal lawsuit she was repeatedly raped as a young student more than four decades ago by the son of the then-pastor and president of the First ...

That sermon also was referenced in January's edition of Chicago Magazine in an article published about Schaap and former church leader Jack Hyles, whom Schaap succeeded. Kaifetz said his book also ...

"She loved that song," Colsten said. "She was a good girl from a good family." Jack Schaap, pastor of First Baptist Church, said Amanda's life and her sudden death have inspired many young people ...

Koster won the conviction of former Hammond megachurch Pastor Jack Schaap for his sexual relationship with a 17-year-old parish girl. Schaap was sentenced in March 2013 to 12 years in prison for ...

Jack A. Schaap, 56, is asking a federal judge to overturn his 12-year sentence "due to the aggressiveness of (the girl) that inhibited impulse control ..." It is a risky strategy that may backfire ...

"From what we understand, the deacon then saw a text come through from a teenage girl in the church, and it was a picture of Jack Schaap and this girl making out," Kae claims. The Board of Deacons ...