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Palestine Herald-Press
By Gary E. Lindsley
A Greenville, Texas minister, facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a teenager while at his former church in the 1990s, has resigned.
Billy Bob Burge, a minister at Grace Community Church, resigned on Thursday, according to Lead Pastor Adam Brind.
Burge is accused of repeatedly sexually abusing John Jeremy Sweet-Gomez when he attended First Baptist Church of Rockwall, Texas as a teenager.
Sweet-Gomez, according to the lawsuit filed against Burge and First Baptist Church of Rockwall by his parents, Carla Sweet and Ed Gomez, committed suicide in January 2015.
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