Pa. pastor to fight charges in staged kidnapping

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LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — The attorney for a Pennsylvania youth pastor who staged a church youth group kidnapping as a lesson on religious persecution says his client will fight the charges.

Andrew Jordan blindfolded the teens in March, bound their wrists and drove them in a cargo van to a dingy basement where they overheard mock torture.

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