OKLAHOMA
Fox 23

by: Hector Mejia Updated: Nov 2, 2016

Witnesses took the stand on the final day of jury selection in the case against an accused child molester.

During opening arguments, prosecutors claimed that Timothy Cato, a Tulsa pastor and youth mentor, molested five children over the course of several years.

However, Cato’s defense claimed the state jumped to conclusions, arguing Cato’s innocence.

The first witness, the senior pastor at Liberty Church, testified Cato admitted to him he had molested at least one child after Tulsa police opened an investigation back in 2014.

He said Cato lived with boys during a Falls Creek church camp and confessed to molesting a child who had nothing to do with the church. Prosecutors also said Cato told police he’d molested one child