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By WAFF.com Staff

Updated: 03/07/2014

A former Colbert County children’s pastor charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse and sodomy, pleaded guilty in court Friday morning.

Jeff Eddie pleaded guilty to 16 counts of sodomy, three counts of sexual abuse of a child and one count of child porn.

Eddie served as a children’s pastor at Highland Park Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals. Eddie was arrested in early February and charged with more than 30 counts of child porn, sexual abuse of a child, and sodomy.

According to court documents, Eddie confessed to performing sex acts multiple times on children from his church.