The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a youth ministry volunteer who also is a convicted sex offender can be prosecuted for violating his parole because the church camp where he worked qualified as a “youth-serving organization.”

In a unanimous ruling, the court agreed with a state prosecutor and reinstated an indictment against the volunteer, identified only as S.B., who was charged because he worked as a youth leader, counselor and mentor at the No Limits Youth Ministry, which is part of the Eternal Life Christian Center in Somerset, in violation of Megan's Law.

Two lower courts had held that the indictment should be dismissed because the ministry was not solely a “youth-serving” organization, but rather a part of the church itself. The high court disagreed.