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The Chronicle-Telegram
Filed by Brad Dicken January 11th, 2013
ELYRIA — A former church youth leader is set to go on trial later this month on allegations he lured 11- and 12-year-old boys from his Cleveland church to his North Ridgeville home and sexually abused them.
Jeremy Pettry, who now is an ordained minister, has been incarcerated in the Lorain County Jail since October and faces two counts of rape and six counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
North Ridgeville police Detective Randall Young said the 32-year-old Pettry was a youth leader at the Pearlbrook Church of God in Cleveland and would invite boys he taught to stay over at his home on Saturday nights to watch movies and play video games before they went to church Sunday mornings.
While the victims were at Pettry’s house he would allegedly engage in sexual conduct with them, Young said.
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