SOUTH CAROLINA
Gwd Today
A local church has been named in a civil lawsuit following a sexual assault that took place in 2005.
A civil action was filed with the Greenwood County Clerk of Court on March 10 on behalf of a victim who was a minor at the time of the incident in 2006. The suit names William Scott Holladay and South Main Street Baptist Church as defendants.
According to court records, Holladay was charged with committing a lewd act on minor and disseminating obscene material to a minor in March 2005 following an investigation by the Greenwood Police Department.
According to the GPD report, police were called to the church by a pastor on March 9 after the parent of a 9-year-old boy found a pack of cigarettes in the boy’s book bag. When questioned about the cigarettes, the boy told his parents and police that he was given the cigarettes by Holladay. The boy also told police that Holladay had shown him pictures of naked women at Holladay’s house and committed lewd acts in front of him. At the time, Holladay was an employee of the church and lived in a house owned by the church. The victim was in the after school program at the church.
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