Pastor Charged With Attempted Child Molestation

Florida: A man who was pastor of a large church in Alachua in 2005 has been arrested in Marion County, accused of soliciting a minor for sex.

The Rev. Kenneth Kleckner III, who was pastor of First United Methodist Church of Alachua in 2005, was arrested Friday, July 9 at the offices of Ocala West United Methodist Church, where he is currently pastor.

According to police reports, he was asking for sex from what he thought was a juvenile girl online. Police even found a Webcam video of Kleckner performing a lewd act for the minor.
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Kleckner was actually talking to an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy pretending to be the girl.

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Priest Charged With Molesting 11 Year Old

West Virginia: A priest has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused an 11-year-old girl last week inside a Herndon home, police said.

Fairfax County police responded late last Wednesday to the residence on Franklin Farm Road, where 44-year-old Felix Owino was accused of touching the child “inappropriately”. Owino was a longtime friend of the family.

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The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston suspended Owino as soon as it learned of the arrest, according to a posting on its Web site. Owino was serving as an associate pastor at St. Paul’s in Weirton and as an instructor at Wheeling Jesuit University.

Pastor Charged With Molesting 9 Year Old

Missouri: St. Clair County prosecutors have charged an East St. Louis pastor for allegedly molesting a young girl.

Rev. Charles Moore was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. He remains incarcerated in the East St. Louis Jail on $250,000 bond. He will eventually be transferred to St. Clair County Jail.

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Moore, 57, is accused of molesting the girl last summer when she was nine-years-old.

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Pastors Lose Child Molestation Appeal

Louisiana: The Second Circuit Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction of two Richland Parish ministers accused of molesting young males in their congregation.

Jason Cooper and Victor Mitchell were each convicted in August 2009 of indecent behavior with a juvenile and oral sexual battery.

In 2007, Jason Cooper, 25, was the pastor at Macedonia Baptist Church in Rayville and Victor Mitchell, his 23-year-old stepbrother, was the pastor at Old Mount Olive Baptist Church in Oak Ridge. The summer of that year, a 14-year-old member of Macedonia Baptist Church said he was visiting Cooper's home when someone turned off the lights, Mitchell kissed the back of his neck and told him to perform oral sex on him.
 
In December 2007, a 16-year-old went to a church service in Bastrop with Cooper and Mitchell. On the way back to Rayville the teen said the two men stopped the car in the parking lot of Mount Olive Baptist Church and performed oral sex on each other before doing the same to the juvenile.

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With the conviction affirmed, the defendants will serve their sentence of five years hard labor, on each charge, to be served concurrently pending any more appeals.