OHIO
Raw Story
TRAVIS GETTYS
24 FEB 2016
A southern Ohio pastor was indicted on more than a dozen felony sex assault charges against two girls and a woman.
Dennis Wright was arrested on seven counts of rape, two counts of sexual battery, two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, three counts of gross sexual imposition, and one count of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, reported the Gallipolis Daily Tribune.
Investigators said two of the victims, a girl and the woman, were parishioners at the Old Emory Church in Jackson County, where Wright served as pastor.
Neighbors and even Wright’s son said the pastor was an ill-tempered man who behaved inappropriately around children.
“Everybody in the neighborhood knew what was going on,” said Elliott Perry, who lives next door to the small church outside Oak Hill.
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