VIRGINIA
Delmarva Now
Written by
Nancy Drury Duncan
Staff Writer
ACCOMAC — A 60-year-old man who came to Accomack County with a group of youth volunteers from a Norfolk church to clear brush, improve trails and do other work at a church-owned camp facility pleaded guilty in Circuit Court to sexual abuse.
The case against Hampton Roads, Va., resident Michael Douthat, originally scheduled to be a bench trial, was settled with a plea agreement.
Testimony showed Douthat became intoxicated at the Occohannock on the Bay Camp and Retreat Center near Craddockville, which is owned and operated by the Eastern Shore District of the United Methodist Church, before touching a 14-year-old girl.
Douthat was not well-known to the others in the volunteer group, said Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Matthew Brenner. He stressed that the group was not connected with Camp Occahannock on the Bay but came as volunteers.
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