Former youth pastor facing charges allowed to volunteer at North Syracuse church

NEW YORK
The Post-Standard

By Marnie Eisenstadt and Jeff Stein

A youth pastor facing trial for sexually abusing a minor in another state worked as a children’s worship leader at a Central New York church while he was under investigation.

Shaun M. Ross, 32, has been charged with two counts of sexually abusing a minor in Maryland. He was arrested in July in Frederick , Md., according to court records. The charges stem from activity that began in 2008 in the community near Baltimore, records say.

Ross was the director of student ministry at the Calvary Assembly church in Walkersville, Md. The Rev. John Kenney, the pastor at that church, would not comment on Ross or the investigation.

“Please know that we have zero tolerance for misconduct of any staff,” Kenney wrote in an email.

Ross and his wife have been living in Clay with his father, the Rev….