DENVER (CO)
Rocky Mountain News
A Denver minister was charged with sexual assault on a child Monday for an alleged sexual relationship he initiated in 2003 with a 17-year-old girl who was in a church choir he directed.
The Rev. Michael Peters, 36, was arrested Jan. 31.
He is charged with sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and as a pattern of abuse.
The victim told police that the relationship began after Peters, who was a pastor at the 2nd Baptist Church in Boulder, began counseling her in connection with an earlier sexual assault.
Peters served as youth minister and choir director.