ARKANSAS
Arkansas Online
By Steven Mross
HOT SPRINGS — A former youth pastor charged in 2014 with sexually assaulting a girl who was 13 at the time at his former Hot Springs residence has been arrested on new accusations that he also raped the girl’s older sister.
Andrew Lee Jackson, 30, who lists a White Hall address, was taken into custody Sept. 30 and charged with 10 counts of rape, punishable by up to life in prison.
According to an affidavit, Garland County sheriff’s investigator Mike Wright began an investigation in November 2014 into rape allegations involving the 13-year-old and Jackson, her 28-year-old youth pastor. Wright was assisted by Arkansas State Police Crimes Against Children investigator Kathy Finnegan.
In December 2014, Jackson was arrested and charged with three counts of rape. Those charges are pending in Garland County Circuit Court.
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