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Former Brookside assistant pastor, Warrior EMS officer Jay Strickland arrested on sexual abuse charges
By Robert Carter
North Jefferson News
MORRIS — A former assistant pastor at a Brookside church, who also served with the Warrior Fire Department, has been arrested on charges of sexual abuse and sodomy.
Jay Strickland, who was an administrative pastor at Sharon Heights Baptist Church, was arrested on June 5 on charges that he sexually abused two separate people, both of whom were children at the time.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jack Self said their office first learned of the accusations three months ago when a male victim came forward. In the course of the investigation, it was determined that another female victim was involved.
Both victims are now adults and live outside the state, Self said.
Strickland, 50 and a Morris resident, was arrested on June 5 and charged with two counts of sexual abuse and one count of sodomy. He was released from jail on $70,000 bond, and faces a preliminary hearing on July 17.
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