OREGON
KATU
By Chelsea Kopta, On Your Side Investigator Published: Jan 7, 2015
GRESHAM, Ore. — The investigation into James Worley, an evangelical pastor and former Tillamook police officer who’s now accused of child sex crimes, extends to several other counties across the state of Oregon, KATU’s On Your Side Investigators learned Tuesday.
Worley was already indicted by a Deschutes County grand jury last month but on Tuesday, KATU confirmed that Oregon State Police is investigating other allegations of abuse in counties where Worley lived and worked.
The OSP, which is the lead agency in the Worley investigation, would not specify which counties they were focusing on.
The indictment filed Dec. 16 in Deschutes County charges Worley with 37 counts, including two counts of rape, 20 counts of sexual abuse, 11 counts of sodomy, one count of attempted sodomy and three counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. The alleged abuse occurred between Sept. 1, 2002 and June 30, 2004 while the children were under the ages of 14 and 12, according to the indictment.
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