LOUISIANA
New Orleans Advocate
BY DELLA HASSELLE | DHASSELLE@THEADVOCATE.COM NOV 10, 2016
The pastor of Second Zion Baptist Church in Central City was arrested Wednesday after two young girls and two women accused him of sexually abusing them in the church, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
Police arrested 59-year-old Gary Lee Curtis and booked him on five counts of sexual battery after investigating a case that was first brought to the department on Sept. 21, according to arrest records.
The NOPD’s Special Victims Section began investigating after a woman reported a single incident of sexual abuse involving a 12-year-old girl, the police report said.
The report said NOPD Detective Bianca DeIrish then met with another person described in the report as a “concerned elder,” who told her that the pastor touched young girls “on their buttocks” while they were at the church at 2929 Second St.
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