Minister, day care worker charged with sex abuse also worked at middle school in Lake Co.

FLORIDA
WFTV

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. —

WFTV has learned that a man accused of sexually abusing children and disabled adults not only worked as a youth pastor and day care worker, but he also worked at a local middle school.

Kenneth Hagins is accused of abusing children and disabled adults while he worked at a Lake County day care and church, authorities said. But Channel 9’s Berndt Petersen found that Hagins also worked at Mount Dora Middle School for eight years before he was fired.

District officials said Hagins worked at the school from May 1999 to Nov. 26, 2007. He had been a teacher’s assistant, custodian and a secretary during his time at the school.

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