FLORIDA
Christian Post
By Morgan Lee
October 31, 2013
A Florida man has been accused of repeatedly sexually molesting a girl over the course of several years during church Sunday school sessions, Hillsborough County detectives have alleged.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 47-year-old William Richardson II on charges that between 2010 and October 2013 he molested a girl who was nine-years-old at the time the alleged abuse began at First Baptist Church of Mango.
In a news release, law enforcement also claimed that the most recent attack came this month, when “at 11 years old, Richardson on at least one occasion sexually battered [the girl.]”
Richardson is currently facing the death penalty for his actions because of the ages of himself and the alleged victim. Under Florida law, sexual battery is a capital felony when the victim is under the age of 12 and perpetrator over the age of 17.
Richardson has also been charged with felony molestation.
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