Former youth minister pleads guilty to child molestation

ALABAMA
Times Daily

By Tom Smith Senior Staff Writer

FLORENCE — Oliver W. Brazelle told Lauderdale County Judge Gil Self he was pleading guilty to child molestation because he enticed a boy to his lake house for immoral purposes.

Moments later Brazelle officially entered a “guilty” plea to the charge, which is a Class C felony.
Self said Brazelle will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Oct. 7, after a presentencing report has been completed. He faces 1-10 years in prison.

Lauderdale County Chief Assistant District Attorney Will Powell said the victim’s family was kept informed throughout the plea process and was in agreement with Tuesday’s guilty plea of child molestation.

Brazelle, the former music and youth minister of First United Methodist Church of Sheffield, was indicted in August 2014 on sodomy and sexual abuse charges involving a teenage boy.

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