GEORGIA
Gospel Herald
By LEAH MARIEANN KLETT Apr 20, 2017
A married Baptist pastor and father of ten who was found guilty of molesting two teenage members of his church congregation has said he is “angry with God” over the verdict.
“As a pastor, as a bishop, I am mad with life and I am angry with God,” Bishop Kenneth Adkins, pastor of the Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship, told reporters. “I did not molest any children. I did not touch anybody, I didn’t have oral sex with anybody. I didn’t allow anybody to have oral sex with me. I did not do those things,” he said.
In a unanimous decision by a Georgia jury, the 57-year-old Brunswick native was found guilty of eight charges of abuse against a teenage boy and girl, the Mail Online reports. Adkins, who will be sentenced April 25, faces a lifetime behind bars if convicted of the five counts of aggravated child molestation; three counts of simple child molestation; two counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes and a single charge of influencing a witness.
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