FLORIDA
First Coast News
[with video]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For the past seven years Jacksonville Pastor Darrell Gilyard has been silent about his conviction as a sex offender. In a phone conversation, Gilyard broke his silence to talk about social media, his current life and about how he was treated in Dr. Jerry Vines autobiography.
“It has been tough when people expect you to run and hide,” said Gilyard,” but I’ve decided that they weren’t going to push me into the shadows; I live in a glass house.”
For 14 years Darrell Gilyard was the pastor of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church, it was here he fell from grace.
In 2007 he was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct. In 2009 he plead guilty to two counts; he was sentenced and the state designated him a sex offender.
“While in Wakulla Correctional I tried to bloom where I was planted,” he said, “I help changed the GED program.”
After his release from prison he was called to be Pastor of Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist church and was met by an ugly community protest in the streets.
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