OKLAHOMA
Tulsa World
Posted: Thursday, July 10, 2014
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
A Tulsa pastor must face trial on nine counts of lewd molestation, a judge ruled Wednesday.
At the conclusion of a preliminary hearing that started Monday, Damien Keith Bonner Sr., 32, was ordered to face trial on charges involving three teenage girls.
Bonner most recently has been pastor of the Galilee Baptist Church, 721 E. Pine St., police said. Defense attorney Stan Monroe said Wednesday that Bonner was recently terminated from his preaching job there.
The charges allege that Bonner knew two of the girls through that church and the other girl through Mount Zion Baptist Church, 419 N. Elgin Ave., where he previously was a minister.
The charges allege that the molestations occurred at various places, including in Bonner’s car, at his apartment in Owasso and at Lacy Park in Tulsa.
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