INDIANA
The Star Press
Douglas Walker , dwalker@muncie.gannett.com October 17, 2016
MUNCIE, Ind. – A legal saga that began nearly eight years ago – on the day Barack Obama was sworn in as president – ended Monday when a count of sexual misconduct with a minor pending against a Muncie pastor was dismissed.
Matthew A. Kidd, now 60, had been scheduled to stand trial Monday in Delaware Circuit Court 3 on the misconduct charge, filed on Jan. 20, 2009.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Judi Calhoun filed a motion to drop the charge – a Class C felony carrying a standard four-year sentence – and said the alleged victim in the case no longer wished to testify.
Kidd, pastor of Freedom Point Apostolic Church, was at first charged with child molesting, sexual misconduct with a minor and vicarious sexual gratification. He was accused of sexually abusing three brothers who were teenagers – and had attended his church – when the alleged assaults took place between 2002 and 2005.
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