Police said the Danbury youth counselor accused of sexually abusing several young men admitted having oral sex with at least one of his alleged victims but insisted he wasn't gay and was saving himself for marriage. Troy Grant, a minister and former executive director of the Pathways Danbury program for at-risk youth, told investigators he had consensual sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy whose aunt had placed him with Grant late last year. "(It) was more a release for me, because I am engaged to a woman I have not been sexual with yet," Grant told police, according to an arrest warrant affidavit made public Tuesday in state Superior Court on White Street. "We are getting married in August of 2010, and I do not want to have sex before marriage," police quoted Grant as saying.
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A Weber County LDS youth leader has been arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse, and police believe there may be more victims. Cory C. Campbell, 37, of Farr West, is accused of inappropriately touching three teenage girls, ages 14 and 15, said Weber County sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson. The alleged abuse happened at his home on the 2500 block of Remuda Drive and did not immediately appear to be related to his position as a leader of teenage boys with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Anderson said. The alleged abuse started in October. All three girls are friends, Anderson said.
There are now at least two young girls accusing Stewart Newman, 38, with sexual abuse. Police reports obtained by KETV NewsWatch 7 show an 11-year-old girl's mother told police on Thursday that her daughter was sexually assaulted by Newman between September and December of 2009 while attending a fighting class at King of King's Lutheran Church. Last Wednesday, the Omaha youth minister who works with children as a martial arts instructor, band leader and choir director was charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. That alleged victim said she was sexually assaulted by Stewart Newman for four years.
Saying a former Gainesville youth minister’s breach of trust will have a lifelong impact on two young men, a judge sentenced the convicted child molester to 18 years in prison Tuesday. Phillip Glenn Terrell, 38, pleaded guilty Tuesday to molesting two teenage boys at the Emmanuel Baptist Church on Atlanta Highway in 2006. Terrell was the leader of the small congregation’s youth group. The congregation has since moved from the brick church on Atlanta Highway and changed its name.... Terrell was hired by Emmanuel Baptist in 2003, two years after he was acquitted of child molestation in Paulding County.
A former York County youth pastor was convicted Thursday of nine felony charges related to multiple sexual encounters he had with two underage girls. Jeremy "Jack" Ryan Duffer, a 40-year-old former youth pastor at Seaford Baptist Church, pleaded guilty in York-Poquoson Circuit Court to eight charges of aggravated sexual battery with a child between the ages of 13 and 17 and a single count of taking indecent liberties with a child. In return, nine additional charges of aggravated sexual battery were dropped by the prosecution.... Duffer was hired by Seaford Baptist Church in early 2007. Biographical information on the church's Web site said Duffer had worked as a pastor for 17 years.
A 37-year-old Port Huron man with ties to youth ministry was arraigned Friday on child pornography charges, police said. Nicholas Arthur Carnes was charged in St. Clair County District Court with possession of sexually abusive materials. Carnes was arrested after police found he had been collecting sexually explicit photos of minors... Mitch Olson, a former youth pastor at Hillside Wesleyan Church in Clyde Township, said Carnes worked closely with children at the church.
