COLORADO
The Gleaner
By Beth Smith
Posted August 13, 2013
A trial date has been scheduled in Colorado for a former youth pastor who is facing sexual abuse charges both there and in Henderson.
John Holland Brothers Jr., 44, who was employed here at Hyland Baptist Church, is expected to go to trial on Jan. 21 in Colorado District Court on 16 felony counts of sexual assault on a child and one count that is a sentence enhancer, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Rusty Prindle in Routt County, Colo.
If convicted of the sentence enhancing charge, that means a judge is required to make the sentence more severe, Prindle said.
Brothers — who is being held on a $500,000 bond in a Colorado jail — faces two counts of first-degree sexual abuse in Henderson. A pretrial conference is scheduled here on Sept. 9.
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