Ex-pastor Charged with Child Sex Abuse

Belleville News-Democrat
June 27, 2014

http://www.bnd.com/2014/06/27/3277573/ex-pastor-charged-with-child-sex.html

A 57-year-old Chicago man has been charged with abusing a boy for six years.

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Hays is accused of fondling the Chicago boy repeatedly from 2003 through 2009, beginning when the alleged victim was 8 years old. The victim is now 19, and reported the alleged abuse in May.

Prosecutors say Hays was a pastor and neighbor of the victim's family.

Hays recently worked as director of congregational life at First Presbyterian Church of River Forest from 2009 until he was fired last month. But church officials tell WBBM-TV that the boy wasn't a member, and the alleged abuse occurred before Hays began working there.