CANADA
Leader-Post
By Betty Ann Adam, The StarPhoenix August 14, 2012
Free Methodist Church leaders were “in shock” and “deeply concerned” after learning a youth pastor, who recently worked in Saskatoon, is charged in Ontario with attempted aggravated sexual assault and luring a child by means of computer.
Kris Allan Gowdy, 42, now of Newcastle, Ont., was arrested Thursday at a residence after allegedly making arrangements on a social media forum to meet a 15-year-old male for a sexual encounter.
Investigators with the OPP Internet child exploitation unit had posed as a teen in an online sting.
Durham Regional Police also reported Gowdy was diagnosed with HIV in 2009.
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