By Tiffany De Masters
Spectrum
April 24, 2010
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20100424/NEWS01/4240320/Lay+pastor+arrested+in+second+abuse+charge
Additional child sex abuse charges were filed against a lay pastor at Living Word Christian Fellowship who also ran an unsuccessful bid to unseat Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, four years ago in the race for U.S. House of Representatives.
St. George Police Officer James Schafer said Kris Lounsbury, 62, was arrested Thursday on the new charges. He said a 10-year-old girl confided in her father that Lounsbury, 62, allegedly had touched and fondled her over an extended period of time.
"The evidence brought forward substantiated the claims," Schafer said.
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Lounsbury was booked on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, both first-degree felonies, Schafer said.
Lounsbary was already charged with two counts of rape, two counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child and two counts of forcible sexual abuse.
On March 13, Lounsbury waived his evidentiary hearing. Defense attorney Larry Meyers told Judge G. Rand Beacham his client had decided to waive the hearing and asked for an arraignment date to be set where the defendant would be formally informed of the charges and asked to enter a plea.
On Thursday, Lounsbury was scheduled for an arraignment at 9 a.m. which was postponed. He was arrested an hour later on the new charges.
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