TEXAS/ALABAMA
Baptist News
By Bob Allen
An Alabama judge has revoked the bond of a former youth pastor awaiting trial for sex crimes after media reports he was serving at a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Texas.
Advocates for survivors of child sexual abuse by clergy protested Sept. 10 outside First Baptist Church of Bedford, Texas, after it came to light that Kyle Adcock, the church’s 32-year-old worship pastor, was indicted last year on 29 counts of rape and sodomy involving a girl younger than 16.
Adcock, former youth minister at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Ala., stands accused of molesting a girl in his former youth group over two years beginning when she was 14. He pleaded not guilty and is seeking dismissal of his indictment, which his lawyers claim is legally flawed.
Arrested in August 2014, Adcock got out of jail in Alabama last October on $500,000 bail, with the understanding that he would be supervised by his parents, who live in Garland, Texas. The Alabama Media Group reported Sept. 11 that a Colbert County judge revoked the bond, finding that his new church job violated a condition that he not have unsupervised contact with minors.
Controversy built during the week as media in both Texas and Alabama followed up on a Sept. 8 report by Fox4News that parents became concerned after learning on Facebook that an accused child molester could find work as a minister even before his case even came to trial.
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