CALIFORNIA
Appeal-Democrat
May 08, 2013
By Rob Parsons/A-D Reporter
Two days before his arrest, several parishioners confronted Baptist Pastor Brian Clay Gray about his relationship with a 16-year-old girl, the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department said on Wednesday.
Sheriff Steve Durfor described the allegations against Gray as “devastating to the community.”
“It’s certainly a shame,” Durfor said. “Any time a person is in a position of authority, influence and leadership and trust, it makes this all the more shocking to a community.”
Gray, 51, was booked just after midnight Wednesday into the Yuba County Jail on $100,000 bail on suspicion of felony sexual child abuse counts of unlawful sex, lewd and lascivious acts, and oral copulation with a minor.
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