CONCORD, N.H.—A New Hampshire jury has resumed deliberating whether a now-52-year-old man raped his children's teenage baby sitter in 1997.
Ernest Willis of Gilford is charged with forcing sex on the girl twice in the months before she turned 16.
He has pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape, acknowledging she was under the legal age of consent at the time. But he claims no force was used and it happened once. Prosecutors say he forcibly raped her twice.
Both were members of Concord's Trinity Baptist Church. After the girl became pregnant, the church pastor helped relocate her out-of-state and put her baby up for adoption.
The jury of six men and six women deliberated for an hour Thursday.
Deliberations resumed Friday just before 9 a.m.
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