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	Seaford Pastor Charged with Forcible Touching By Laura Rivera Newsday March 30, 2009 http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-lipast306089101mar30,0,4315065.story A Seaford church pastor has been charged with misdemeanor forcible touching in connection with an incident in October, according to police and court records. The Rev. Ronald M. Klose, 58, was arrested March 23 and arraigned at Nassau First District Court in Hempstead last Tuesday, police said. District Judge Andrea Phoenix ordered him held on $2,000 bond or $1,000 cash bail and issued a temporary order of protection against him, records show. Nassau police Monday said Klose was accused of "forcibly touching a female" at an Octoberfest Celebration at the Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in 2008. Klose is the pastor of Our Redeemer, according to a church Web site. Reached at the Washington Avenue church after a Sunday service, Klose declined comment and asked for privacy for his congregation. A 2004 Newsday article said Klose, then a captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, ministered to U.S. Marines stationed in Djibouti, Africa, in 2003. In 1990, he served as a chaplain during Operation Desert Storm, according to the report. Klose was raised in Queens and graduated from Bayside High School in 1970. He earned a master's of divinity degree from Christ Seminary in St. Louis in 1978. Before joining Our Redeemer in 1996, Klose served at King of Kings Lutheran Church in Melville, among others. He is due back in Nassau County Court in Mineola on Apr. 16, court records show. Contact: laura.rivera@newsday.com
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