A Melbourne Baptist Church youth leader claims he was rescuing a 15-year-old boy from homosexuality when he sexually abused him in a toilet block in 2009.

Daniel Rogers, 22, was today immediately jailed for eight months after a County Court judge said he did not accept that Rogers was ‘‘rescuing’’ the victim.

Judge Joe Gullaci said the victim and Rogers were at a church youth function when they began talking and referenced an earlier conversation they had online, during which the victim had said he was confused about his sexuality.

In that online conversation, Rogers asked the victim whether he had ever considered having sex with a man.

At the youth function the victim asked Rogers if he had meant what he said during the online conversation and if he was willing to have sexual contact with him.