FLORIDA
Huffington Post
[with video]
By David Moye
A volunteer youth minister and church choir director has been arrested after allegations he repeatedly sexually abused a girl during Sunday school starting when she was 9.
William Richardson, 47, was charged with capital sexual battery after the girl, now 11, told a staff member at her school that he had molested her over a three-year period at the First Baptist Church of Mango in Seffner, Fla., according to RawStory.com.
Investigators for the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Dept. said the suspect first molested the girl when she was between 9 and 10. At least one other incident happened earlier this year with the girl, now 11, TampaBay.com reported.
Before the arrest, deputies had the victim talk with Richardson by phone. They said that during the conversation, he said things that made it clear he had committed the sexual battery, WTSP-TV reported.
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