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	Self-Styled Pastor Charged with Molestation in Decatur Associated Press, carried in Ledger-Enquirer October 27, 2006 http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/15864771.htm Decatur, Ala. - Authorities arrested a Decatur man, who claimed to be an ordained minister, on charges he molested an elementary school student he was tutoring. Victor Young Pickett, 32, was booked into the Morgan County Jail and released on $25,000 bond Tuesday. A grand jury indicted Pickett on a charge of first-degree sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old. "In April a child in elementary school reported to his teacher that he had been inappropriately touched by a man he knew as 'Pastor P.,'" Decatur police Sgt. Terry White said. Pickett was indicted on sodomy and sexual abuse charges in January 2000, but that case was later dismissed, The Decatur Daily reported Friday. In the 2000 case, police told the newspaper that a six-month investigation into Pickett's activities revealed he was running a church out of his apartment, picking up young males to take them there and molesting them. But Pickett said one of the families he was helping set him up after he discovered they were drug users and criminals and he stopped assisting them. At the time, he told The Decatur Daily that he was an ordained minister who ran the Pentecostal Church of Truth, an outreach ministry with about 15 members. Attempts to reach him for comment Thursday were unsuccessful, the paper said.
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