Sunday school teacher jailed following sentencing for sex with minor

RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- An Ontario Sunday school teacher was taken into custody this morning at West Valley Superior Court after he was sentenced to one year in jail for molesting an underage female student, a prosecutor said.

John Calvin Savage, 45, pleaded no contest in July to committing a lewd act on the 12-year-old girl. The plea bargain he reached with prosecutors spared him a potential three-year state prison term.

Savage, who was free on bail, will be serving his jail term as "straight time" rather than on weekends, said Deputy District Attorney Jason Anderson. Savage, a married father of six, will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life as a result of his conviction.

The girl told police that Savage touched her inappropriately in 2003, when she was a Sunday school student at Grace Baptist Church in Corona.

Savage was also suspected of molesting a 16-year-old Chinese girl who lived at his home as part of a foreign-exchange program. Prosecutors agreed to halt the investigation into the allegations as part of Savage's plea bargain.