KENTUCKY
New York Daily News
BY RACHELLE BLIDNER
A Kentucky Sunday school teacher confessed to sexually abusing one of his 16-year-old students after he was arrested Monday night, police said.
Rex Allen Murphy, a 30-year-old teacher at Polly Ann Church of God in Eubank, Ky., was charged Monday night with sexual assault, sodomy and the use of a minor in a sexual performance, police chief Colin Hatfield said.
Murphy allegedly touched the male victim inappropriately at church and at Murphy’s home, with at least 10 incidents of sexual abuse over the course of six months, police said.
Murphy also allegedly threatened the teen with black magic, The Commonwealth Journal reported.
“What the suspect told the victim is that if he touched his skin or shook his hand, he could tell the victim’s sins from the past,” Hatfield told the Daily News. “If the victim ever told anybody like his parents what was going on between the two, he would notify his parents of his past sins.”
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