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Garland youth pastor arrested for sex assault at church
By Josh Davis
GARLAND – A Garland youth pastor was arrested Friday for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old, possession of child porn, and online solicitation of a minor, Sachse police say. Derek Hutter, 37, is a youth minister at South Garland Baptist Church and the alleged victim is a Sachse resident. The girl's parents first alerted police to the situation on Oct. 3 after they discovered an email from Hutter to their daughter asking her to perform and photograph herself performing sexually-explicit acts. The victim was interviewed at the Dallas County Children's Advocacy Center on Thursday and told a counselor that in January, when she was 13, she began a sexual relationship with Hutter that continued through 20 encounters through September, according to the arrest affidavit. She told the counselor the encounters occurred at the church and at Hutter's home in Garland. According to the arrest warrant, Sachse police executed a search warrant on Hutter's cell phone after investigating a complaint that Hutter had received several nude pictures of a juvenile girl at his request. The search uncovered four pictures of the juvenile's genitals and other images with the victim's face visible. Hutter was arrested for continuous sexual abuse of a child, possession of child pornography, and online solicitation of a minor. He is being held in the Sachse jail on $150,000 bond and will be transferred to Dallas County jail.
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