SEATTLE (WA)
Q13 Fox
Dana Rebik
Q13 FOX News Reporter
SEATTLE—
Seattle police say they believe that for at least the past 10 years well-known church musician and singer Timothy Dampier has been sexually abusing young boys — and they are asking that anyone who might have been victimized to call them.
Dampier was arrested in May 2011 after a young man told a pastor about the abuse he says he endured when he was 9 years old.
“To think about it was sickening and degrading and I mean honestly there was no lower point in my life,” said Kenny M.
In November 2010, Kenny told his pastor, Robert Lee Manaway, about the abuse, but court documents show Manaway never reported it. Then Kenny told the reverend of the New Hope Baptist Church, where Dampier had recently been hired as an organist.
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