MISSOURI
Christian Today
Jonah Hicap 01 January 2016
Prosecutors dropped the charges against a deaf church official in Missouri who was accused of sexually molesting a male churchgoer with disability.
Rodney Sexton, a treasurer at the Deaf Liberty Baptist Church in Overland Park, was charged in Johnson County with aggravated sexual battery of a 31-year-old male, who is deaf and has a mental age of an eight-year-old, according to KCTV5.
Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe dropped the charges against Sexton a day after the latter appeared in court for the first time.
Sexton is also on the roster of sign language teachers at Maple Woods Community College in January and also once taught at the Metropolitan Community College (MCC).
He faced six felony sex charges involving a child in the 1980s and was convicted on two counts and served time in prison. He is not listed on the Kansas Sex Offender Registry as his convictions occurred before 1994. Sexton was released from prison in 1989 and released from probation four years later.
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