ALABAMA
Selma Times-Journal

By Josh Bergeron

VALLEY GRANDE — A Valley Grande pastor is in jail after allegedly having sex with a minor multiple times.

William R. Best Jr., 47, 327 Centenary St., Valley Grande, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with second-degree sodomy, second degree rape and incest. He is being held on a $250,000 bond in the Dallas County Jail. He was a pastor at Living Waters Worship Center on Deepwoods Drive in Valley Grande.

Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said the incident was reported Monday, when the child’s mother brought the girl into the sheriff’s department. Huffman said incidents of sexual abuse date back three years, when the girl was 14. Best allegedly had sex with the girl at his home and in the church’s office “dozens of times.”

“Pastors, of all people, should be above stuff like this,” he said. “By committing these acts, he…