MISSISSIPPI
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The criminal trial of confessed child molesting minister John Langworthy, originally set for April 2, has been scheduled for July 30 in Hinds County in Jackson, Mississippi. He is charged with 8 felony counts of gratification of lust for 5 victims, boys between the ages of 8-12. This abuse took place in Clinton and Jackson, MS while he served at 2 area Baptist churches, First Baptist Jackson and Daniel Memorial Baptist Church, while he was attending Mississippi College.
Langworthy confessed these crimes of child sexual abuse from the pulpit of Morrison Heights Baptist Church on August 7, 2011. He was arrested and indicted in September. In addition to the child sex crimes for which he is indicted, Langworthy also confessed to molesting minor boys at his previous employer, Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Though the executive staff, including then and current head pastor, Dr. Jack Graham, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, heard him confess to this molestation in 1989, they did not report these crimes to the police as required by state law.
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