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BY BRIAN ROKOS STAFF WRITER June 27, 2013

Bail remained at $65,000 Thursday, June 27, for Todd Michael Edwards, the man accused of sexually assaulting two teen girls who were members of a Mormon church in Menifee where Edwards was bishop.

Edwards’ defense attorneys had been seeking a bail reduction. But during a hearing Thursday morning in Riverside, Superior Court Judge Becky L. Dugan said the amount of bail was appropriate for the charges: sexual penetration with a foreign object while using bodily force, sexual battery and dissuading a witness.

Edwards, who turns 49 on June 29, has pleaded not guilty to all charges. A date of July 24 was set Thursday for a felony settlement conference.