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	Pastor Bound Over; Court Dates Set By John Ford Neosho Daily News [Missouri] September 18, 2006 http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2006/09/18/breaking_news/001pastor.txt A Newton County pastor facing 17 charges of child sexual abuse was bound over to circuit court on eight of those charges today (Monday). Meanwhile, a preliminary hearing on the most recent nine charges against the pastor was also set today. George Otis Johnston, pastor of the Grandview Valley Baptist Church North in rural Granby, was arraigned on eight counts of statutory sodomy. He is slated to appear in Newton County Division III Associate Circuit Court at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 28 for the proceeding. Judge Kevin Lee Selby will preside. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for another nine felony child sexual abuse counts. That hearing is set for 1:15 p.m. Oct. 16. The hearings were held this afternoon in Newton County Division II Associate Circuit Court Judge Greg Stremel's courtroom. The decision came after testimony from two witnesses: One of Johnston's accusers and Det. Mike Barnett of the Newton County Sheriff's Department.
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