Southern California pastor held in molestation

CALIFORNIA
Modesto Bee

The Associated Press
March 14, 2014

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A Southern California pastor has been arrested on suspicion of molesting two boys — one of them for years.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says 54-year-old Stephen Howard was arrested Thursday.

He remains jailed on $250,000 bail.

Howard has been lead pastor at Muscoy United Methodist Church in San Bernardino since 2001. He was youth director at a United Methodist Church in Ontario from 1989 to 2001.

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