KANSAS
The Raw Story
By Tom Boggioni
Monday, March 10, 2014
A longtime Dodge City resident and pastor, aged 79, was arrested Friday, in connection with multiple rape and sexual assault allegations.
According to the Dodge Globe, Pastor Dr. Jerrold W. Ketner has been charged with seven counts of rape and sexual assault in the case, involving a 33 year-old female victim.
Charges against the pastor include: rape, two counts of attempted criminal sodomy, two counts of aggravated sexual battery, attempted rape, and one count of blackmail.
The Dodge City Police Department opened the sexual assault investigation on the pastor of New Hope on the Plains church on March 6.
On March 7, Ketner’s $100,000 bond was modified to a $10,000 cash bond in Ford County District Court with District Judge Ann L. Dixon ordering the defendant to be placed under immediate house arrest if he should post bond
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