Former Muscle Shoals youth pastor accused of rape, sodomy hired by Texas church - and members are not happy

By Crystal Bonvillian
AL.COM
September 9, 2015

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/09/former_muscle_shoals_youth_pas.html

Charles Kyle Adcock

A former Muscle Shoals youth pastor facing 20 counts of rape and nine counts of sodomy in Alabama has been hired by a church in Texas, and congregants there are not pleased.

Charles Kyle Adcock, who was indicted in January on the charges involving an underage girl, is now an employee of First Baptist Church of Bedford in Bedford, Texas, according to Fox 4 News out of Dallas. Steve Knott, pastor of the church, told the news station that Adcock is a temporary employee in the church's music ministry. 

That temporary status does not stop congregants of the church from worrying. 

"Kids trust ministers," Julie Brooks, the parent of a teenager who takes classes at the church, told Fox 4. "And if they are approached by someone who works in the church, you would trust him. You would have no reason not to."

The 32-year-old Adcock, who was arrested last August, was youth pastor Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals between 2010 and 2012, when the girl alleges he raped and sodomized her repeatedly. She was 14 years old when the alleged abuse began. 

By the time the girl came forward last year, Adcock had left the church and moved to Arkansas before relocating to Grand Prairie, Texas. He served the Muscle Shoals church from December 2008 until May 2012. 

Woodward Avenue officials said at the time of Adcock's arrest that they were shocked by the allegations and were cooperating with the investigation.