Police Reports Provide New Details in Pastor Sex Abuse Case

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Police reports are providing new information in the case of a youth pastor charged with sexual abuse.

Ryan McKelvey, 27, is charged with two counts of sexual abuse and two counts of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist after police said two girls in his congregation came forward with allegations of abuse.

Police reports said at first the 16-year-old girl didn’t provide much detail about what happened, but has now added more details to her account of what happened.

She told police she knew Ryan KcKelvey for two years and trusted and confided in him because he was her youth pastor at Heritage Assembly of God.

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