Gresham pastor appears in Bend court on abuse charges

OREGON
KTVZ

[the indictment – via KATU]

Kandra Kent

BEND, Ore. –
Appearing by video from jail Wednesday afternoon, Gresham Pastor James Worley got emotional as he heard the charges against him, alleging that he’d sexually abused a boy and girl between 2002 and 2004.

“(The boy) was approximately 2 years old to 4 years old and (the girl) was between 6 and 8,” Deschutes County Deputy District Attorney Brigid Turner said in Circuit Judge Randy Miller’s courtroom.

Worley, senior pastor at Powell Valley Church, is charged with numerous counts of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing the girl. He was arrested late last month in Gresham and brought to Bend Tuesday.

He’s also charged with three counts of inducing the boy and girl to engage in sexual conduct in another person’s view.

Prosecutors worry there’s more victims.

“His access to children over the years, working with children, he is currently a youth pastor in Gresham,” Turner said.

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