Youth minister facing sex abuse charges

By Ben Senger
KPTV
December 23, 2014

http://www.kptv.com/story/27691862/youth-minister-facing-sex-abuse-charges

(KPTV) -

Hillsboro police arrested a youth minister in the sexual abuse of two boys at the church where he worked.

Officers took Dylan Ritterman into custody on Thursday on more than a dozen counts of sex abuse charges.

Police told Fox 12 there are at least two victims who Ritterman allegedly abused in the basement of the Bethel United Pentecostal Church in downtown Hillsboro.

The allegations were reported to police by the mother of one of the victims, who is now 18. She told police that Ritterman touched her son inappropriately in 2009 and 2010, when the boy was 14 and 15 years old, respectively. Police said the suspect would also drive the victim home occasionally.

There have been no details released about the other victim at this point in the investigation. Police believe there may be more victims but no one has come forward so far.

Ritterman was being lodged in the Washington County Jail on more than $50,000 bond.