ALABAMA
AL.com
By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
on July 08, 2014
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Alabama – A former pastor at a Jefferson County church is charged with sexual abuse and sodomy after two adult victims came forward claiming he abused them as children.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office charged the Rev. Jay Strickland, a UAB nurse anesthetist and former administrative pastor at Sharon Heights Baptist Church in Brookside, with two counts of sexual abuse and one count of first degree sodomy.
Strickland is on administrative leave from UAB pending investigation.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Jack Self said the investigation was launched in April after a male victim came forward and reported he had been abused by Strickland when he was a child. The victim is now an adult and lives in another state.
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