TEXAS
Raw Story
BETHANIA PALMA MARKUS
06 APR 2016
A Texas youth pastor who was caught allegedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old child was beaten by witnesses who say they attacked him to stop the abuse, Fox4 reports.
Dallas police arrested Willie Lee Bell Jr., 29, who was a youth pastor at First United Methodist Church of Cedar Hill. Authorities say he lured the kindergartner behind an apartment, where he molested him. Bell is also implicated in a February sexual assault of two other children, Fox4 reports. All victims are aged 6 and 7.
“It’s painful. It’s devastating. It’s a nightmare,” the mother of a 6-year-old victim told the station.
She said her child was playing outside with other kids when Bell lured him behind a building.
Fox4 reports that court records show it’s not the first time Bell has been accused of sexually abusing children — he was accused of showing pornography to a child in Tennessee.
One victim told authorities that the man abusing him was wearing “church shoes.”
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