NEW YORK
The Post-Standard
By Marnie Eisenstadt and Jeff Stein
A youth pastor facing trial for sexually abusing a minor in another state worked as a children’s worship leader at a Central New York church while he was under investigation.
Shaun M. Ross, 32, has been charged with two counts of sexually abusing a minor in Maryland. He was arrested in July in Frederick , Md., according to court records. The charges stem from activity that began in 2008 in the community near Baltimore, records say.
Ross was the director of student ministry at the Calvary Assembly church in Walkersville, Md. The Rev. John Kenney, the pastor at that church, would not comment on Ross or the investigation.
“Please know that we have zero tolerance for misconduct of any staff,” Kenney wrote in an email.
Ross and his wife have been living in Clay with his father, the Rev. Terry Ross, for about a year. Terry Ross is the senior pastor at the Victory Christian Center in North Syracuse. In April, Shaun Ross and his wife, Brandi, were put in charge of children’s programs at the Victory Christian Center, according to the church’s Facebook page.
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