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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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The former Cornersburg clergyman used his authority to take advantage of the woman, a prosecutor alleges.
YOUNGSTOWN — Dale Giffin, who resigned as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Cornersburg last fall, has been indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury on six counts of rape.
The indictment, returned Thursday, alleges Giffin, 59, of Topaz Circle, Canfield, [...]

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A former youth pastor of Grace Brethren Church on Marion Ave. in Mansfield has been indicted on 26 counts of sexual battery by the Richland County Grand Jury.
John Picard, 41, was indicted last year on 16 counts of sexual battery of two teenage parishioners.
Richland County Assistant Prosecutor Bambi Couch-Page says the new case involves unlawful [...]

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LIVINGSTON — Deputies booked one of the seven defendants in the Hosanna Church child molestation case on an unrelated aggravated rape count, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday.
Allen R. Pierson of 27953 Red Oak Road in Livingston was booked in a case involving a juvenile victim,  according to the District Attorney’s Office for the [...]

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Spared prison a decade ago, he could face up to 12 years
A convicted sex offender spared prison a decade ago in favor of treatment pleaded guilty Monday to a new charge of sexually assaulting a teenage boy.
Robert D. Bennefield, 43, of Sifton could face up to 12 years in prison.
In 1998, Bennefield pleaded guilty to [...]

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