ALABAMA
Times Daily
By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer
FLORENCE — A former music and youth minister of First United Methodist Church of Sheffield was arrested Monday, charged with second-degree sexual abuse and one-count of second-degree sodomy, officials said.
Oliver Brazelle, 79, 311 Meadow Hill Road, Sheffield, was arrested Monday afternoon by agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation, officials said.
Authorities said Brazelle is accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy who was a member of his youth group at the church. The accusation is that the abuse took place in the mid-1990s.
According to the accusations, the sexual abuse occurred at Brazelle’s Shoals Creek residence on Lauderdale 322, near Happy Hollow.
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