SOUTH DAKOTA
Tampa Tribune
The Associated Press
A Sumter County real estate agent has been accused of having sex with a teenage girl from 2011 to 2013, when he worked as pastor at a South Dakota church.
A federal grand jury in South Dakota on Monday indicted Tony Haglund on counts of sexual penetration by a psychotherapist, sexual contact with a child younger than 16 and sexual contact by a psychotherapist.
He was being held Monday at the Sumter County Detention Center in Bushnell with bail set at $500,000, a jail spokeswoman said. Haglund could be brought back to face the charges in 10 days if he waives extradition from Florida, said Dennis Johnson, the sheriff in Lincoln County, South Dakota.
A woman who answered Haglund’s cellphone Wednesday told The Associated Press that he had no comment.
Authorities said Haglund had sexual contact with the girl between January 2011 and December 2013, while he worked as a pastor at Canton Lutheran Church in South Dakota’s Lincoln County. Investigators said the girl was 15 years old when the abuse started.
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