CHATTANOOGA (TN)
News Channel 9
[with video]
John Madewell
A deacon at St. Jude Catholic church has been charged with sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl.
65-year-old Thomas McConnell is also over the Hamilton County school system’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program. Chattanooga police have charged McConnell with aggravated sexual battery.
The allegation is that McConnell repeatedly fondled the girl while dining at a north Chattanooga restaurant.
Ed Cagle and his wife Tammye were eating one table away. Tammye became so upset she started video-taping with her iPhone.
Ed Cagle was also very upset and had seen enough. He said, “By that time, I saw him put his hand in her pants and I just got up and just went over to his table and told him he needs to cut that out, that he was molesting that little girl.”
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