Former Muscle Shoals Youth Minister Arrested in Texas on Rape, Sodomy Charges against Teen

By Jonathan Grass
AL.com
August 20, 2014

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2014/08/former_muscle_shoals_youth_min.html

Charles Kyle Adcock (Contributed by WHNT News 19)

MUSCLE SHOALS, Alabama -- A man was arrested in Texas Wednesday in relation to sex crimes against a child during his time as a youth minister in Muscle Shoals.

Charles Kyle Adcock, 31, faces 22 counts of second-degree rape and nine counts of second-degree sodomy. He was picked up by Frisco police in Texas after arrest warrants were issued out of Muscle Shoals a few days ago. He is currently being extradited back to Alabama. In the meantime, his bond at the Frisco City Jail is $500,000.

Lt. Sieg Mueller with the Muscle Shoals Police Department said Adcock is committing these crimes against a young girl at his Muscle Shoals home and at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, where he served a youth minister. Mueller said the girl came forward within the last few weeks, telling police Adcock abused her between 2010 and 2012. She was 14 years old when it started.

Mueller said Adcock left the church and Alabama in 2013, moving to Arkansas then to Grand Prairie, Texas.

Church employees could not comment. The woman who answered the phone said she did not work there while he was there, and no one else was available to speak.

This is the third Colbert County case this year involving a former church leader and sex crimes. Former Highland Park Baptist Church youth pastor Jeff Eddie was arrested on more than 30 counts of second-degree sodomy and child sexual abuse in February. He pleaded guilty to 20 counts of child sex abuse and was sentenced to 30 years in March.

In Sheffield, former music director Oliver Brazelle of the First United Methodist Church was charged with sexual abuse and sodomy in January. Court records do not show a trial date yet.