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Former Attleboro church school principal indicted on child molestation charges
BY DAVID LINTON SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
ATTLEBORO — The former assistant pastor of Grace Baptist Church and principal of the Grace Baptist Christian Academy, who was arrested in January for allegedly molesting one of his female students, has been indicted by a Bristol County Grand Jury, lawyers said today.
The Rev. Jeffrey A. Nichols, 47, faces charges in Fall River Superior Court of indecent assault and battery, accosting a person of the opposite sex and open and gross conduct.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last Tuesday in Fall River Superior Court, where the case will now be prosecuted. He has been held in jail on bail since his arrest.
After his arrest, a prosecutor said Nicholas 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.
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