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Victoria Advocate
BY JESSICA PRIEST – JPRIEST@VICAD.COM Originally published May 20, 2014
A 35-year-old Victoria man arrested by police Monday night in front of Gold’s Gym was planning a life with a 16-year-old.
Stephen Paul Crofutt, arrested on suspicion of online solicitation of a minor, went to the mall with the girl on Mother’s Day and picked out a 13/8-carats, 14-karat white gold engagement ring, according to a complaint filed by Detective Cody Breunig of the Victoria Police Department’s Cyber Crimes Unit.
Breunig wrote that the girl’s mother contacted him Monday morning about Crofutt, whom the family had met at Parkway Church more than a month ago.
Crofutt was a youth volunteer for Parkway Church’s All Star Kids ministry, which is for elementary school children, said the Rev. Mike Hurt.
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