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	Fugitive Pastor Charged with Statutory Sodomy Investigators Believe Newton County Church Linked to McDonald County Cases The Joplin Globe [Missouri] August 23, 2006 http://www.joplinglobe.com/breakingnews/local_story_235124019.html Arrest warrants have been issued on the missing pastor of a church in Newton County affiliated with a McDonald County church whose pastor, pastor's wife and two church members are facing child-sexual abuse allegations spanning four decades. The Newton County sheriff today said authorities are seeking George O. Johnston, 63, on warrants charging him with eight counts of statutory sodomy. Johnston is the pastor of Grandview Valley Baptist Church North on Hebron Road in Newton County, which investigators believed is affiliated with Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church near Powell in McDonald County. Four children were removed Monday from a compound where church members live near East Newton High School. The sheriff said the charges against Johnston involve acts of sexual abuse committed with children of church members over a four-year span.
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