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	Local Pastor Charged with Exploiting Minor News-Record March 30, 2007 http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWSREC0101/70330011/-1/NEWSREC0201 Kernersville — A pastor at a High Point church faces numerous charges involving a 17-year-old boy, Kernersville police announced today. Todd Turner Brock, 42, of 507 Old Mill Road in High Point, is charged with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, promoting prostitution of a minor, disseminating obscenity and solicitation of another to commit a felony, according to Kernersville police. In arrest warrants, police said Brock engaged in sexual activity, sexual bondage, anal sex and oral sex with a 17-year-old boy for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of the activity. Warrants also say Brock sent text messages via cell phone to the 17-year-old showing pictures of uncovered male genitals. Police seized a number of home computers, video tapes, handguns and a shotgun from Brock's house on Thursday. They also seized a black plastic bag that contained a leather whip, Goth makeup and necklaces. Working with a 17-year-old male informant, Kernersville Police said they and the FBI recorded telephone conversations between the informant and Brock and seized e-mails in which Brock discussed making a pornographic film with the young man. In a televised press conference, Donnie Snow, a deacon at the church said Brock was "very solemn and very heartbroken at this series of events." Brock has been pastor for 17 years at Tabernacle Baptist Church in High Point, police stated in a news release. The case began March 23 after a 17-year-old boy who lives in Kernersville came forward to his parents and a school counselor, said Detective Sammy Peddycord of the Kernersville Police Department. The victim and Brock knew each other, Peddycord said. He declined to release specifics about the case, citing the continuing investigation in Kernersville and at least one other location. "There is one case that is open in another jurisdiction involving Mr. Brock," Peddycord said. Brock is being held in the Forsyth County Detention Center on $1 million bond. The investigation involved Kernersville police and the State Bureau of Investigation. Authorities searched Brock's home during the investigation.
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