UPDATE: Former Parkade Baptist youth director charged with sexual assault

By Alyssa Salela
Columbia Missourian
March 07, 2015

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COLUMBIA – The former youth director at Parkade Baptist Church was arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree statutory sodomy and possession of child pornography.

Dale G. Johnson, 42, turned himself in to Boone County Sheriff's Department detectives at 4:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release. His arrest followed an investigation that began when the Missouri Division of Children’s Services received a hotline call in early February.

Detectives suspect Johnson of assaulting a girl on multiple occasions, beginning in 2013. The victim was under the age of 14 at the time of at least one of the assaults. Johnson and the victim knew each other, according to the release.

Chris Cook, the senior pastor at Parkade Baptist Church, said the church put Johnson on administrative leave the day after the investigation began. Johnson has since resigned and is no longer affiliated with the church.

Johnson is being held in the Boone County Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond and faces charges of first-degree statutory sodomy of a person under 14 years old, second-degree statutory sodomy and possession of child pornography, according to missouricase.net.

Johnson also cannot have contact with anyone younger than 18 or operate or possess any computer.