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The Sun Chronicle
Principal of Grace Baptist school in Attleboro charged with molesting female student
BY DAVID LINTON and JIM HAND SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
ATTLEBORO — The assistant pastor of the Grace Baptist Church and principal of the Grace Baptist Christian Academy has been charged with repeatedly molesting one of his female students.
The Rev. Jeffrey A. Nichols, 47, was ordered held in jail on $25,000 cash bail this afternoon in Attleboro District Court. A prosecutor said he violated a position of trust by molesting one of his seventh-grade students beginning in 2008 when she was 13 and continuing until the end of the school year in June 2013.
“He admitted to all the allegations made by the victim” after he voluntarily went to the police station for questioning Monday, Assistant District Attorney Erin Aiello said during a bail hearing.
The allegations came as a shock to church Pastor Jeff Bailey, who told The Sun Chronicle he immediately fired Nichols when Nichols told him about the allegations Monday.
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