MISSOURI
The Raw Story
DAVID EDWARDS
09 JUL 2015
A former youth pastor was accused this week of sexually assaulting a girl over a five year period, beginning when she was 12 years old.
The St. Louis Dispatch reported that former Ballwin Baptist Church youth pastor Cameron Patterson, who also worked as an after school program supervisor for Wentzville School District, was charged on Wednesday in Lake Saint Louis with two counts of felony child molestation.
Court records indicated that Patterson had sexually assaulted the victims “hundreds of times” beginning at the age of 12 and continuing until she was 17 years old, The St. Louis Dispatch noted.
Patterson reportedly used email to apologize to the victim, court documents said.
He allegedly told her that he “wanted to seek professional counseling for his sins and to seek guidance from church officials and his parents.”
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