FLORIDA
Orlando Sentinel
By Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted December 29, 2004
A church pastor accused of molesting a Polk County boy eight years ago and suspected of having sexual relations with two boys in other states was arrested Monday in Arizona, authorities said.
Robert A. Enersen, 54, now pastor of the First Assembly of God church in Douglas, Ariz., faces three counts of lewd assault on a child and is being held in an Arizona jail without bail, a Polk County Sheriff's Office report said.
Enersen conducted youth services for about two months in 1996 at New Life Assembly of God in Wahneta, a small town south of Winter Haven, but he was not on staff at the church. Investigators said Enersen and the victim knew each other outside the church.
In October, a boy who is now 15 told Polk detectives that Enersen inappropriately touched him on numerous occasions in November 1996, the report said.
The boy told detectives he didn't initially report the lewd acts because "he was afraid of the suspect due to the size of the suspect," authorities said.