Pastor Accused of Molestation, Sought by Police

By Bill McCleery
Indianapolis Star
December 12, 2012

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Police continue to look for an Indianapolis pastor suspected of forcing a boy to have sex with him in the mid-1990s, starting when he was 12 and continuing past the boy’s 13th birthday

Otis B. Jetter, 70, is charged with three felony counts of child molestation in an affidavit signed Nov. 30 by court officials .

Jetter is a pastor at Pilgrim Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, 2301 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Ave., Indianapolis.

The alleged victim, who is now 29, reported the incidents last month to Indianapolis police after noticing that another young boy had accompanied Jetter to church one day this year but then stopped coming to church, according to the affidavit.

The alleged victim told police about occasions in which the older man took him around in his vehicle, to restaurants, fishing outings and church events. The man occasionally would stop at out-of-the-way locations, the alleged victim said, and enlist the boy’s participation in sexual activity.. Those occasions are described in the affidavit.

The pastor then paid the boy money not to tell anyone, the alleged victim said.