ALABAMA
AL.com
By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
on May 07, 2014
PLEASANT GROVE, Alabama – A 58-year-old man arrested on charges he raped a 13-year-old girl inside a Jefferson County church is back in jail after a second victim came forward.
Pleasant Grove police on Wednesday morning re-arrested Tyrone Banks Sr. at his lawyer’s office in Bessemer, said Sgt. Danny Reid. Banks is now charged in Pleasant Grove with first-degree sexual abuse, which is sexual contact by forcible compulsion.
Reid said Banks is the associate pastor at Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church. Jefferson County sheriff’s officials on Monday announced charges of rape by forcible compulsion and first-degree sodomy against Banks.
The victim in the latest case contacted Pleasant Grove police this week after news of Banks’ arrest was made public. Reid said the victim is 19 years old, but was 16 when the sexual assault took place. That assault didn’t happen in a church. “She is very distraught,’’ that it happened again, Reid said.
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