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QUINCY - A youth counselor at a Baptist church in Quincy that later merged with a Hull congregation faces a charge he raped a 14-year-old girl who was a member of his Bible study class.
Robert J. Morris Jr., 28, of 141 Commercial St., Braintree, was arraigned Monday in Quincy District Court on a charge of [...]

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ROCK PORT, Mo. — After deliberating nearly nine hours, an Atchison County jury on Thursday night convicted Joseph R. Gaines III, 60, of two felony counts of first-degree child molestation and one count of first-degree statutory sodomy.
The jury could not reach a verdict on a second count of statutory sodomy.
The verdicts in the court of [...]

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Authorities: Warren expected to meet underage girl at N.Y. hotel
An employee of a Jackson residential treatment program for troubled teenage boys was arrested in New York last week after authorities said he went to a hotel expecting a tryst with an underage girl.
Larry Warren, who was director of operations and personnel at Youth Town in [...]

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Joseph R. Gaines III, 60, faces 2 felony charges

ROCK PORT, Mo. — A jury of two women and 10 men will decide the fate of a Northwest Missouri preacher and part-time police officer charged with sex crimes.
The state charged Joseph R. Gaines III, 60, with two felony counts of first-degree child molestation and two counts [...]

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Sex abuse conviction overturned
WORCESTER — The Rev. Thomas H. Teczar, a Roman Catholic priest formerly from Worcester, faces a second trial in Texas on charges that he sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in 1990.
Rev. Teczar was found guilty by a Texas district judge in 2007 of three counts of aggravated assault of a child [...]

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