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	SC Pastor Charged with Assaults on Teenage Girl Associated Press June 13, 2008 http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8489151 AIKEN, S.C. (AP) - A North Augusta pastor has been accused of sexual assaults on a teenage girl that started 18 years ago. Sheriff Michael Hunt says 69-year-old Rev. Lawrence Smith is charged with three counts each of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree; performing a lewd act on a child; and aggravated assault and battery. The State newspaper of Columbia reported investigators arrested Smith at his home Thursday. The sheriff's department says the incidents occurred between 1990 and 1995 at Smith's home and another home. Hunt says there were other victims, some of whom have moved or do not want to cooperate. The sheriff's office says Hunt was pastor of Free Indeed Holiness Church. Hunt was being held in the Aiken County jail. A phone message left at his home Friday afternoon was not immediately returned. Information from: The State, http://www.thestate.com
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