ALABAMA
WHNT
JULY 2, 2014, BY CARTER WATKINS
FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) – A former Sheffield music minister arrested and charged with sodomizing a young boy in the 1990’s has waived his preliminary hearing in Lauderdale County.
This is the same music minister who faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in Sheffield two years ago, but charges were never filed.
In a formal complaint filed in Lauderdale County court, 80-year-old Oliver Brazelle is identified as the man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy 4 times over a three year period.
According to the complaint, the first incident happened inside a hotel room in Georgia on a church trip to Six Flags in 1995.
The victim stated to ABI agents the three incidents that followed happened at Brazelle’s lake home in Lauderdale County from 1996 to 1997.
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