WEST VIRGINIA
WVVA
[with video]
By Gil McClanahan
PRINCETON (WVVA) – –
A former youth volunteer at a Bluefield, West Virginia church charged with child sex abuse is free on bond.
The attorney for 55-year old Timothy Probert of Bluefield says they plan to try and get evidence of the alleged abuse suppressed under the “Priest Penitent Privilege” law in West Virginia.
That law states whatever you tell your pastor is in confidence and cannot be used against you, and attorney William Flanigan tells us that will be a major part of their defense.
According to the criminal complaint, Probert told Pastor Jonathan Rockness and two elders at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Bluefield, West Virginia that he had abused several teenage boys at his house and on mission trips.
Probert is facing more than three dozen charges for sex crimes against children.
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