Former church youth director charged with sexual assault

MISSOURI
Maryville Daily Forum

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A former youth director at a Columbia church has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl.

Forty-two-year-old Dale G. Johnson, of Columbia, was charged Friday with first-degree statutory sodomy of a person younger than 14 years old, second-degree statutory sodomy and possession of child pornography. He is jailed on a $100,000 cash-only bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

The Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/1MiJsu8 ) reports that his arrest followed an investigation that began when the Missouri Division of Children’s Services received a hotline call in early February.

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