ALABAMA
AL.COM
By Crystal Bonvillian | cbonvillian@al.com
A former Muscle Shoals youth pastor facing 20 counts of rape and nine counts of sodomy in Alabama has been hired by a church in Texas, and congregants there are not pleased.
Charles Kyle Adcock, who was indicted in January on the charges involving an underage girl, is now an employee of First Baptist Church of Bedford in Bedford, Texas, according to Fox 4 News out of Dallas. Steve Knott, pastor of the church, told the news station that Adcock is a temporary employee in the church’s music ministry.
That temporary status does not stop congregants of the church from worrying.
“Kids trust ministers,” Julie Brooks, the parent of a teenager who takes classes at the church, told Fox 4. “And if they are approached by someone who works in the church, you would trust him. You would have no reason not to.”
The 32-year-old Adcock, who was arrested last August, was youth pastor Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals between 2010 and 2012, when the girl alleges he raped and sodomized her repeatedly. She was 14 years old when the alleged abuse began.
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