ALABAMA
Times Daily
By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer
FLORENCE — The former music and youth minister of a Sheffield church, charged with molesting a teenage boy, waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday, and his case will proceed to the grand jury.
Oliver Brazelle, 80, 311 Meadow Hill Road, Sheffield, is charged with second-degree sexual abuse and one-count of second-degree sodomy, officials said.
By waiving his preliminary hearing, Brazelle’s case will be place on the docket to be presented at the upcoming August grand jury session, according to court officials.
Agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation arrested Brazelle on Jan. 6.
Authorities said Brazelle is accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy who was a member of his youth group at the church. The accusation is that the abuse took place in the mid-1990s and occurred at Brazelle’s Shoals Creek residence on Lauderdale 322 near Happy Hollow.
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