VIRGINIA
NBC 12
[with video]
By Sarah Bloom
SPOTSYLVANIA, VA (WWBT) –
61-year-old Edward Zottoli has been charged with five sex related crimes after deputies said he had a naked sleep over with a teen he was supposed to be mentoring from church.
Investigators said a 14-year-old teen and his brother went to Zottoli’s home for an overnight counseling session.
“I think he was just kind of a mentor to the children in the church, the adolescent boys in the church,” said Cpt. Mike Harvey with the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office.
Instead, detectives said Zottoli, known as “Brother Ed” to the kids, assaulted the 14-year-old.
Harvey said while one of the brothers was asleep on the couch, Zottoli asked the 14-year-old to get into bed with him. Harvey said the teen claimed Zottoli was naked at the time, asked the teen for a massage, and that then Zottoli sexually assaulted the teen twice. They say Zottoli also asked the teen to perform sexual acts on him.
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