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Okay, here we go.
It's 2005.
A 20 year old named Steven Sittler is a student at New St.
Andrews.
That's the Christchurch Affiliated College in Moscow, Idaho.
Stephen is staying with the Christchurch family while he goes to school.
New St.
Andrews doesn't have dorms by design.
They want to keep students from the temptations that come with cramming a bunch of 18 to 22 year olds together.
Instead, students are encouraged to board with church families, but when it comes to Stephen, that idea of keeping students away from sin, it horribly backfires.
Jimmy read through a detailed report about what happened next.
So it was March of 2005, and the family that Steven Sittler had been staying with, they had a few children.
And there was a sleepover one night.