A former Long Beach teacher and Jehovah’s Witness church elder was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday for sexually assaulting one of his students who also served in his congregation in Cypress, authorities said.

Jason Morris Gorski, 44, of Fort Mill, S.C. pleaded guilty in November to two counts of lewd acts with a minor under 14 for molesting a 13-year-old boy in Buena Park in 2007-2008, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Prior to the crimes, Gorski worked for about four years as a school teacher at the now-shuttered Southwestern Longview Private School in Long Beach, where the victim was one of his students, prosecutors said. Gorski at the time of the crimes was an active member of the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall in Cypress, which the victim also attended.

Gorski moved in 2010 to South Carolina. Gorski was arrested in 2016.