13 things about Southaven, Mississippi’s Lindsey Whiteside

Lindsey Aldy Whiteside is from Southaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. The city is home to Northpoint Christian School.

BIOGRAPHY

Whiteside is an American convicted child sex offender. She is a former youth pastor.

As a student athlete, Whiteside played basketball at Northpoint Christian School, Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, USA and Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is Robert Shannon “Shan” Whiteside and Gayle Betts Whiteside‘s daughter.
2. She is Kris Whiteside Wells, Aron Albert Whiteside and Russ Whiteside‘s niece.
3. Her paternal grandparents are Robert Ellis “Bob” Whiteside and Martha Irene Aldy Whiteside.
4. She served as an assistant basketball coach at DeSoto Central High School.
5. She has a sister named Leigh Allison Whiteside and a brother named Tyler Whiteside.
6. In 1997, her grandmother Martha died.
7. She was born in 1998.
8. In 2006, her father died.
9. In 2017, she graduated from Northpoint Christian School.
10. From 2017 to 2019, she attended Rhodes College.
11. From 2019 to 2022, she attended Lipscomb University.
12. In 2022, she joined Getwell Church Hernando in Hernando, Mississippi as a student and outreach coordinator.
13. In 2024, she was accused of sexually abusing a girl and was arrested.

TIMELINE

Lindsey is 5’10” tall. Her father played basketball and baseball at Magnolia Heights School in Senatobia, Mississippi, tennis at Northwest
 Community College in Senatobia and basketball at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

1990s

• Her grandmother Martha turned 58 on March 29, 1997 and died in Starkville, Missisippi on October 27, 1997.

2000s

• Her father turned 34 on May 9, 2005 and died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis on March 4, 2006.

2010s

• On September 15, 2019, her uncle Aron turned 58.

2020s

• On February 5, 2020, her uncle Aron died from a heart attack.
• In August 2022, Getwell Church Hernando hired her.
• Between May 14, 2024 and November 6, 2024, she allegedly sexually assaulted a girl, then 14 and 15, at a time when she was in a position of trust or authority over the child.
• In November 2024, she was arrested on a sexual battery charge.
• In December 2024, she was indicted on one count of sexual battery of a child.
• On October 13, 2025, she pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery of a child. Judge Andrew Howorth sentenced her to 10 years under court supervision with no contact with the victim and the victim’s family and required her to be on house arrest during the first three years and suspended on condition of house arrest during the remaining seven years.
• On October 14, 2025, DeSoto County district attorney Matthew Barton said his office determined through research that her sentence of three years under house arrest and seven years of probation was not a viable one.