MISSISSIPPI
Washington Times

By – Associated Press – Thursday, March 17, 2016

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) – Authorities have filed a third charge against a Baptist youth pastor arrested in Hancock County on allegations he sexually abused a child.

The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1VdFtFw) Pearl River County deputies filed a sexual battery charge against 35-year-old David Matthew Thorne, of Picayune, on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was booked in Hancock County on two similar charges.

Pearl River County Chief Deputy Shane Tuckers says Thorne, a youth pastor at Goodyear Baptist Church, is accused in the sexual abuse of the same child three times.

Hancock County sheriff’s Chief Investigator Glenn Grannan said the child was first abused Jan. 31 in Hancock County.