By Jessica Hatfield
The Williamson Daily News
February 18, 2010
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| Johnny Dempsey |
The former pastor, teacher and coach who was charged with sexual abuse charges against his daughter waived his right to a preliminary hearing in front of Mingo County’s Chief Magistrate Eugene Crum on Wednesday. Dempsey’s case will now be bound over to Mingo County Circuit Court.
Johnny Ray Dempsey was arrested on Friday, Jan. 22, by Mingo County Sheriff’s deputies for inappropriate contact with his 14-year-old juvenile daughter in June 2009, according to public records.
At the time of the crime, Dempsey was a teacher at Kermit K-8 and Tug Valley High School and a pastor at Grace Truth Bible Center, located at Boy Scout Hollow.
Dempsey was arraigned in Mingo County Magistrate Court and placed in the Southwestern Regional Jail on a $100,000 cash bond.
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