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	Port Orchard: Wanted Pastor Seeking Legal Help, Relative Tells Kitsap Deputies The News Tribune October 28, 2007 http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/crime/story/189714.html A Port Orchard pastor sought for questioning about the reported rape and sexual abuse of girls contacted a relative and was seeking the advice of an attorney, a family member told the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. Deputy Scott Wilson, a spokesman for the department, said Saturday that the relative told detectives the pastor knew authorities were looking for him and was in "consultation" with an attorney. Wilson speculated that the pastor might turn himself in to authorities but that they are still looking for him. "We still want him," he said. The News Tribune isn't naming the pastor because no charge has been filed. The Sheriff's Office said in a statement Friday that detectives had "probable cause" to arrest the 60-year-old pastor of a church in South Colby on two charges of second-degree child rape. The pastor couldn't be found at his church or at his home Friday when detectives tried to serve a search warrant. The allegations come from a girl and woman in her 20s, both of whom were former members of the pastor's congregation. The woman told authorities that the abuse started when she was 12 or 13 and continued until 2006, Wilson said. Other girls might be involved, he said.
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