WEST VIRGINIA
Daily Mail
A Kanawha County pastor accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in his home entered a plea of not guilty Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court.
Circuit Judge James Stucky arraigned Johnnie Franklin Winnell, 59, of Gypsum Lane, Monday on charges of sexual abuse by a guardian or person of trust and first-degree sexual abuse. Winnell pleaded not guilty to both charges.
Winnell, who was listed in April as a computer operator for Kanawha County Schools’ transportation office, was arrested in April after a teen girl in his care told Kanawha deputies he touched her inappropriately.
The 14-year-old told a forensic interviewer that Winnell, a pastor at United Gospel Mission on Charleston’s West Side, touched her sexually at least twice, according to a criminal complaint.
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