ALABAMA
Times Daily
By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer
Three former Shoals area youth ministers made headlines this year when they were accused of abusing children who were members of their churches.
The combined stories of their arrests was voted the third story of the year in a TimesDaily newsroom poll.
Charles Kyle Adcock, 31, who now lives in Frisco, Texas, and is a former Woodward Avenue Baptist Church youth minister, is charged with 22 counts of second-degree rape and nine counts of second-degree sodomy.
Adcock was a youth minister at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church from 2010-12. Investigators said Adcock faces sexual abuse charges that date back to his days as a youth minister.
Adcock is accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a girl who was 14 at the time. Adcock was the girl’s youth minister.
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