MARYLAND
Fox Baltimore
BY ETHAN MCLEOD
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH 2016
ROCKVILLE, Md. (WBFF) – A 32-year-old Montgomery County man was arrested Wednesday for his alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl at a Rockville church where he served as a youth minister.
Montgomery County police detectives took Brian Patrick Werth, 32, of Montgomery Village, into custody, charging him with fourth-degree sexual offense, sexual abuse of a minor and second-degree assault. Werth worked at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church on Montrose Road in Rockville.
Child Protective Services alerted detectives in August about allegations that Werth had made inappropriate sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl who attended a youth event at the church in May.
According to the Archdiocese of Washington, a pastor at the church who received a sex abuse complaint about Werth alerted the Archdiocese’s Child and Youth Protection Office, which reported the case to police. The Archdiocese said in a statement that it immediately suspended Werth from his duties at the parish and the school at St. Elizabeth’s, and that he has since been fired.
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