KENTUCKY
WCPO
INDEPENDENCE, Ky. — A youth ministry leader at a Northern Kentucky church was arrested on charges of sexual abuse, rape and sodomy, according to the church’s senior pastor and Kenton County Jail records.
Joseph Lee Niemeyer Jr., 54, was booked into jail Monday morning.
Tim Cochran, senior pastor at New Banklick Baptist Church in Walton, Kentucky, said Niemeyer confessed Sunday evening to inappropriately touching a girl in his home.
All of the charges listed on the Kenton County Jail website pertain to a victim under 12 years of age.
New Banklick Baptist’s website lists Niemeyer and his wife as the church’s youth ministry leaders.
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