VIRGINIA
WHSV
By: Samantha Galvez
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) — A former children’s pastor accused of a sexual crime with a child made his first court appearance Monday morning.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Leonard “Sonny” Layman this weekend and charged him with seven felonies, including five counts of sexual abuse of a minor.
As of last Wednesday, Layman is no longer with the church.
According to members of the Spring Creek Church of the Nazarene in Bridgewater, where Layman was a pastor, an announcement was made at services Sunday morning abut his arrest.
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