GEORGIA
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By Elizabeth Campbell – Reporter
September 09, 2016
BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A Glynn County magistrate judge on Friday found probable cause to order Pastor Ken Adkins to stand trial in Superior Court on two counts of child molestation.
Adkins, 56, pastor of the Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship, has drawn fire in the past for his remarks about homosexuals.
A young man who used to be a member of Adkins’ church told the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that Adkins molested him in 2010, when the boy was under the age of 16.
In court, prosecutors showed two pictures of Adkins’ private parts that were allegedly emailed from his phone to the boy. Adkins’ lawyer said that since the defendant had multiple businesses, he could have had more than one phone and others could have had access to them. He also said the timing doesn’t add up, as the pictures were sent in November 2014 to prove something that happened in 2010.
Adkins shook his head as GBI Agent James Feller testified that the alleged victim, who they are calling AJ, said his relationship with Adkins started when he was 15. The boy told authorities that he met Adkins through a mutual friend. After he joined Adkins’ church and entered a mentoring program, That’s when a sexual relationship with Adkins began, he told the GBI.
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