Pastor charged with molesting girls

DOVER (DE)
The News Journal

Written by
Robin Brown
The News Journal

A longtime Department of Transportation employee who also is a church pastor faces 46 felony charges after an investigation into allegations he had sexual contact decades ago with two girls who were then 8 and 10 years old.

All of the charges filed Thursday against Odell L. Wright, 57, of the Dover area, are felonies, Delaware State Police Master Cpl. Gary E. Fournier said Saturday.

Wright was arraigned on 39 counts of first-degree unlawful sexual intercourse, six counts of unlawful sexual contact and one charge of continual sexual abuse of a child, Fournier said. He was being held in Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna on $215,000 secured bail.

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