Orange County church volunteer sentenced to 120 years in prison for molesting young girls

An Orange County church ministry volunteer was sentenced to over 120 years in prison for molesting young girls.

Todd Christian Hartman, 41, of Newport Beach, was convicted of molesting several young minors and possessing hundreds of explicit images of children, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Hartman had repeatedly molested a girl beginning when she was 6 years old, officials said. He met the girl while volunteering at the Anaheim Vineyard Church children’s ministry.

He was also convicted of molesting the girl’s younger sister while taking sexually suggestive photographs as she was on his lap.

At the time, church leadership changed Hartman’s responsibilities after they “became concerned about him repeatedly pulling children onto his lap,” court documents said.

In 2016, Hartman contacted the father of the two sisters and admitted to the crimes.

In a separate incident, Hartman was also convicted of molesting two girls in 2009 — a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old. While at a sleepover at a Fullerton home, he “groped and fondled their genitals repeatedly,” authorities said.

Investigators also discovered Hartman possessed hundreds of pornographic images of children, including children stripping, dancing in their underwear and performing oral sex. 

In February 2015, a search warrant was served at the Newport Beach home Hartman shared with his mother after detectives traced an ...