FLORIDA
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Kristin Weber
Lake Wales, Florida — A federal grand jury has indicted a former associate youth minister on charges of producing and attempting to produce child porn.
Arnold Mathis was arrested in December 2011 after a man told Polk County Sheriff’s detectives Mathis sexually battered him numerous times when he was 14 or 15 years old, while Mathis was a minister at a Winter Haven church. The victim came forward when he was 21 years old.
Mathis, a registered sex offender, is currently being prosecuted on five counts of Sexual Battery by a Person of Authority on a Child over 12 and under 18 by the Polk County State Attorney’s Office.
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