GEORGIA
Atlanta Daily World
Jul 5, 2014 By Terry Shropshire, National Correspondent
A Florida church had barred children from service because a sex offender convicted of child molestation became their pastor. He was prohibited from being in the vicinity of children, prompting the church ban on children.
Just the other day, the probation on the minster was changed to enable him to minister to children and the church leaders lifted the ban from kids attending service.
Darrell Gilyard, 52, is currently pastor at Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., and began his tenure at the church right after being released from prison in December 2011 for sex crimes against two minor girls at his previous church.
According to WJXT, a judge modified Gilyard’s probation which now enables him to “minister to children under the age of 18 as long as the children are supervised by an adult other than the defendant.”
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