WOODLAWN (MD)
Catonsville Times
A second person in religious authority at Woodlawn's Redemption Christian Fellowship has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor.
Less than a month after the church's pastor, Gerald Fitroy Griffith, was arrested on several counts of sexual abuse, a deacon of the church was taken into police custody Dec. 14 on similar charges.
Gary Warren Warfield, 44, has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor as well as second-degree assault and a fourth-degree sex offense, police said.
Warren, who police say denied the charges, allegedly committed the offenses when the now-17-year-old male victim was 14 and 15.