NORTH CAROLINA
Gaston Gazette
By Lauren Baheri
Published: Thursday, January 22, 2015
A recently removed pastor who once worked in Lincolnton and Shelby was charged last week with sexually assaulting a child.
The abuse is alleged to have occurred decades ago in Jacksonville, Fla.
Michael Wayne Hill, a 52-year-old former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, was charged with sexual battery of a person younger than 12 years old.
No statute of limitations exists in a child sex crime.
Hill served as pastor of churches in Shelby and Lincolnton for 15 years, according to Robert Crux, marketing director for Carolina Conference, the division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that covers Gaston, Cleveland and Lincoln counties
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