Second Victim Claims Abuse by Alvarado Pastor

Cleburne Times-Review
August 15, 2014

http://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/news/article_bd2da8b2-24c8-11e4-a0cf-0019bb2963f4.html

According to a Fort Worth newspaper, another victim has come forward claiming Dan Haby Jr., pastor of Cowboy Way Church in Alvarado, sexually abused him as a teen.

Haby, 51, is charged on two counts of indecency with a child and remains free on bond after his July 25 arrest on allegations that he sexually abused a teen he mentored while he was a pastor of the Stockyards Community Church in Fort Worth.

Haby used to live in Fort Worth and the alleged abuse began in 2000, when the first victim was 15, and occurred in his home on Creston Avenue. The victim contacted police in June and investigators obtained two arrest warrants for indecency with a child by sexual contact.

According to the article, the second alleged victim, 25, contacted Fort Worth police detective C.W. Daniels on July 31 after news of Haby’s arrest.

A Fort Worth police report filed Thursday indicates the alleged abused also occurred in Haby’s home on Creston Avenue in Fort Worth.

Haby declined to comment, referring all questions through his attorney.

Although church officials refused to comment on the allegations, during an Aug. 3 sermon available through SoundCloud, visiting Pastor Randy Free addressed the congregation on the issue.

“Today our church find itself in a very unusual place. Our beloved pastor finds himself in the greatest spiritual battle of his life and his ministry and it’s a battle that also affects this church,” Free said. “However there is a silver lining behind this storm cloud and that is that Dan’s God and our God has never lost a battle. He is not about to lose this one.”

Free encouraged the congregation to not judge or condemn but to be loving to those involved.