NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte Observer
BY JOE MARUSAKJMARUSAK@CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.COM
04/18/2015
A Kannapolis youth pastor has been arrested and charged with sex offenses against a 13-year-old church member.
Benjamin Ross Hollifield, 25, of Salisbury, is in the Rowan County Detention Center on $1 million bail on charges of felony indecent liberties with a child and felony statutory rape or sex offense with a minor six or more years younger than himself, jail records show. He was placed in jail on Friday, records show.
The Salisbury Post reported the victim is 13. Hollifield was youth and outreach pastor at Piedmont Baptist Church, multiple media outlets reported.
In a statement on its website, the church said one of its employees was fired “for abusing a child and violating the church’s trust and policies.”
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