MISSISSIPPI
Clay Center Dispatch

Associated Press

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a youth pastor has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing a child twice in the last three months.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1TMJPE1) Hancock County sheriff’s investigators booked 35-year-old David Matthew Thorne, of Picayune, Tuesday on two counts of sexual battery of a minor.

Chief Investigator Glenn Grannan said Thorne, a youth pastor at Goodyear Baptist Church in Pearl River County, sexually abused the same child on Jan. 31 and Feb. 7.