MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The DeSoto County District Attorney has filed a motion to resentence a former youth minister convicted of sexual battery of a minor on Monday.

Thursday, District Attorney Matthew Barton filed the motion requesting the Circuit Court of DeSoto County, Miss. amend the sentence given to Lindsey Whiteside, who pleaded guilty to the sexual battery charge.

Whiteside, a former youth minister at Getwell Church in Hernando, Miss., and a former basketball coach at DeSoto Central High School in Southaven, Miss., was indicted on one count of sexual battery of a child in December 2024. She was arrested in November 2024 on a sexual battery charge.

Retired Circuit Judge Andrew Howorth sentenced her to 10 years under court supervision with no contact with the victim or her family. During the first three years, she will be on house arrest.

It will be followed by five years of supervised probation and two years of unsupervised probation.

In the motion, the state claimed Whiteside was given an illegal sentence because she was found guilty of the charge.

The D.A. said that because she was found guilty, Mississippi law prohibits offenders from serving their sentence on house arrest.

The state said Whiteside should have received a sentence that aligns with similar cases.

Barton compared Whiteside’s case to that of Quintez Hagan, who was 18 years old at the time of his offense. Hagan pleaded guilty to the sexual battery of a 13-year-old.

The D.A. said the victim was texting Hagan, and they both met to have sexual intercourse.

He said the victim in Hagan’s case refused to prosecute, and she and her family did not participate in the sentencing hearing, write a statement, or offer a sentence.

In August, Hagan was sentenced to seven years in prison, followed by eight years of post-release supervision.

The D.A. said Judge Howorth said comments before sentencing Hagan, “[D]ue to the passage of time, I also can look at the Defendant and say — and have an opinion about his probability of re-offending, and I consider it low, and that’s important. The public will be protected because he’s going to be a registered sex offender, and yes, he’s going to get time.”

The state also said in the motion that while the cases differ with the race and sex of the defendants, it is apparent that the court had different rationales at sentencing.

He said that in Hagan’s case, he lacked maturity and the victim had a four-year and nine-month age gap, while in Whiteside’s case, she is an adult with a fully formed brain and eight years and seven months older than the victim.

Barton also filed a motion to the court requesting to unseal the records in Whiteside’s case.