ALABAMA
Baptist News
By Bob Allen
A Texas Baptist pastor told an Alabama judge Sept. 14 that he knew that a worship pastor he hired in April was facing criminal sex charges, but he didn’t know how many.
Steve Knott, pastor of First Baptist Church of Bedford, Texas, said at a hearing in Colbert County Circuit Court that 31-year-old Kyle Adcock was attending the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-affiliated congregation with his parents when Knott became the pastor in late January.
Based on the testimony of the pastor and a police officer, Judge Hal Hughston found sufficient evidence that Adcock’s employment violated a condition of his $500,000 bond that he avoid unsupervised contact with minors. The judge ordered Adcock back to jail, without bond, until this trial scheduled in January.
Adcock was indicted in January on 12 counts of first-degree rape, nine counts of second-degree sodomy and eight counts of second-degree rape. The crimes allegedly occurred over a two-year period while he was serving as youth pastor at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
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