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	Youth Minister Charged with Molestation United Press International November 23, 2009 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/11/23/Youth-minister-charged-with-molestation/UPI-66541258997883/ CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Nov. 23 (UPI) — A former church youth minister has been charged with molesting a 14-year-old parishioner in Coral Springs, Fla., police said. Russell Lewis, 28, was arrested Saturday and charged with custodial battery and 10 counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post reported Monday. Sources close to the investigation said the contact between Lewis and the girl may have been consensual, but nonetheless was illegal because the girl was a minor. "There is brokenness, anger and a lot of hurt," senior pastor the Rev. David Hughes told the congregation Sunday at Church of the Glades. Lewis was fired by the Southern Baptist church following his arrest and was held Sunday in the county jail on a $20,000 bond. Two years ago, the Church of the Glades attracted controversy with a program called The Bare Naked Truth on Sex, which was promoted on an interstate billboard showing two pair of feet hanging off a bed.
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