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HOUSTON — Chad Foster admitted to soliciting sex online from one young girl and sexually assaulting another. The former youth pastor was convicted of those crimes in 2013 and is serving five years for those sex crimes. Now the family of one of the victims is taking legal action against the church years after the crime.
“We’re going to hold them accountable,” said attorney Cris Feldman.
Now Feldman, who represents one of the victims, is going after Second Baptist Church and Community of Faith Church. Foster was with one or the other at the time of both crimes. In a civil suit, lawyers claim Second Baptist “placed Foster in a position that allowed him to manipulate children.”
“Parents need to be cautious,” said Feldman. “This is a sophisticated marketing scheme targeting children.”
The suit claims Foster met his victim during lunch at a local Cypress Fairbanks middle school where Second Baptist sent their youth pastors to recruit pre-teens to church. It wasn’t long before Foster began texting the 12-year-old. They talked on Facebook, and then he exposed himself via Skype sessions where he asked the girl to “talk dirty” to him and “take off her clothes”. Feldman says Second Baptist failed to protect the child.
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