Travis R. Smith, 45, California, was sentenced to four years in prison on each of five felony counts following mixed pleas.
An Alford Plea was entered to two C Felony counts in the case for which he was on trail. That case was from 2005, involving a teenage girl in Moniteau County, for which he served as youth pastor in the church she attended. The counts were statutory rape, second degree and statutory sodomy, second degree.
A guilty plea was entered to each C Felony count of two other cases. The two counts in a case from 1999 were for statutory rape, second degree, and sexual abuse. The third case, from 1998, was for one count of statutory rape, second degree.
The five four-year terms are to be served concurrently. The pleas were accepted following about six hours of deliberation by a panel of jurors.
Smith was originally arraigned on felony sex charges filed on Sept. 28, 2012, with an additional charge filed June 10, 2013. A mistrial was declared in a previous trial in Moniteau County in December of 2015.