TEXAS
Slate
By Beth Ethier
A church in Texas hired a youth minister from Alabama while he was out on bail for dozens of sex offenses allegedly committed against a child at his former job, Fox affiliate KDFW reports. Charles Kyle Adcock is currently employed as a music minister for the First Baptist Church of Bedford, Texas, where parents are reportedly upset about the background of the man giving their children music lessons:
Alabama court documents show [Adcock] has been charged with 29 counts of sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl between 2010 and 2012, when he was her youth minister.
He was working at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals at the time, a city about two hours northwest of Birmingham.
The pastor at the First Baptist Church of Bedford told a KDFW reporter that the church usually conducts background checks on employees (as David Edwards notes at RawStory, a rudimentary Google search would have turned up multiple stories about Adcock’s arrest). First Baptist’s pastor also repeatedly stressed that Adcock hasn’t yet been convicted on the charges, KDFW reported.
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