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GEORGIA: "A South Georgia man is in the Lee County jail on Cobb County child molestation charges. In 2013, Alexander Edwards was arrested for inappropriate Internet conduct with a child. This is his mugshot from that arrest. At the time he worked as a substitute teacher in Lee County and was a youth pastor at Providence Church, but has since been fired. Edwards was picked up last week by Lee County deputies for a new child molestation charge in Cobb County."

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MISSOURI: "A former Missouri pastor accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl in 2005 has been sentenced to four years in prison. The Kansas City Star reports that 45-year-old Travis Smith entered an Alford plea last week in Laclede County to charges of statutory rape and statutory sodomy, and was sentenced.... Prosecutors say the girl's father caught her and Smith, who was her youth pastor at Pilot Grove Baptist Church in unincorporated Moniteau County at the time, having sex at a cemetery."

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WISCONSIN: "A member of a Sheboygan church's youth group band is charged with sexually assaulting underage girls he met at church activities, according to a criminal complaint obtained by TODAY’S TMJ4. During an interview with Sheboygan Police April 14 at City Church, a youth pastor told officials he received a call from a concerned parent that a youth pastor had been molesting children who were members of the church. However, an internal church investigation revealed that it was a member of the church’s musical youth group, Clayton Michener, who had contact with the children; not a pastor. Although court documents show Michener described himself as a "worship leader," church officials say he was just a member of the youth band."

Youth Pastor Watch is back because pious shitstains like Ted Cruz want you to think trans men and women are exploiting civil rights protections to prey on children in public restrooms. Bigoted religious conservatives don't want you to think about the people who are really preying on children and where children are being preyed on.