Which seems strange. Googling either gets a bunch of hits, Savage has written some books and been putting himself out in public for years. Highpoint, of course, is a megachurch.

I wanted to know just how old Savage was when he took this 17-year-old out for that drive. "College student" can be very loose, but a few searches (just scanning a few sites, not intensive) turn up no age or birth date. Not even clues on his personal website or Highpoint's as to what year or era he, for instance, graduated high school or took a first pastoral job. Nothing to enlarge on his statement that he was a "college student"...

on how to do their taxes or a cooking class or something.

he may have been at least 10 years older. At very least he was an adult who shouldn't have been messing with a high school girl.

I only say "may" because that was 20 years ago and the law may have been changed. But Tennessee's current law for aggravated statutory rape states: "If victim is at least 13 but under 18, and offender is at least 10 years older than victim." Class D felony.

He could also have been charged with a more serious class C felony under "Statutory rape by an authority figure."

This took place in 1998.

requires a 10-year age gap. Or maybe the report had the "aggravated" charge incorrect.

I did read that description of that unfortunate night, which he apparently admitted widely to and repented. I don't blame the poor girl for getting angry when he fell to his knees and started repenting right there, instead of declaring undying love. Regrettable that her own emotional pain wasn't so quickly exorcised.

His official bio at High Point Church
http://www.highpointmemphis.com/andy-savage

This is her blog post on it - very graphic
http://watchkeep.blogspot.com/2018/01/silent-no-more-survivor-of-sexual.html

So he would be 41 now - and 21 at the time.

I'm glad that his actions are finally being brought to light - hopefully there will be consequences.

She had just turned 19 and was a freshman in college. I worked with the high school youth at the time on a voluntary basis. I had just moved to the community.

A few years later after we had dated, got engaged, and were married; the youth director of the church at the time characterized our marriage as if I had met my wife while working with her in the youth group. I quickly corrected the timing. I recognized that as a line that would never be crossed irrespective of whether the high school youth was over 18 or not.

I wonder what I would have done if I had moved to the community in Feb.. instead of Nov. My wife would have been a high school student then, and I would have met her in my role as a youth adviser. Chances are strong we would have never been married.

Also first "dates" usually don't involve driving someone into the woods and behaving in this fashion. I took my wife to a really nice restaurant, and back to the dorm were she shook my hand and we parted.

a teenager to a remote spot and asked for a bj.

Minus the driving part.