Bond Set for Former Pastor on Sexual Assault, Burglary Charges

News Star
April 19, 2012

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John Brothers Jr. / West Monroe Police

The former Kentucky youth pastor arrested in West Monroe last week has been transported to Steamboat Springs, Colo., where he was booked into the Routt County Jail with a $500,000 bond.

John Brothers Jr., 43, was arrested Friday by Routt County Sheriff’s deputies in West Monroe with assistance from the West Monroe Police Department.

Brothers was arrested on eight charges of first-degree burglary, eight charges of sexual assault on a child and seven charges of sexual assault.

Steamboat Today reports the arrest warrant with details of the allegations has been sealed by a judge.

However, charges filed in Routt County District Court allege the sexual abuse to a child occurred from 2006 to 2008. He was a pastor at First Baptist Church in Yampa, Colo. He also taught at Heritage Christian School near Steamboat Springs during this timeframe.

Routt County officials began their investigation in March after a resident informed them of the allegations.

Brothers previously was arrested in 2011 in Kentucky on charges of first-degree sexual abuse of two juveniles who were members of his former church, Hyland Baptist Church in Henderson County, Ky.

He resigned from the church and moved to live with relatives in West Monroe in 2011.