Baltimore County church volunteer charged with child sex abuse

MARYLAND
ABC 2

TIMONIUM, Md. – A volunteer at the Church of the Nativity in Lutherville has been charged with sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl, Baltimore County Police said.

Terrence Shondry Smalls, 26, of Lutherville was charged this week with sex abuse of a minor, second degree assault, child abuse, second-degree custodian and second-degree sex offense. He is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center.

Police said the girl told her mother last month she had been sexually abused by a man volunteering in the church nursery during a Sunday morning mass.

Police said Smalls has been employed or has volunteered at a number of locations that put him in contact with children, including:

* Babysitting services for children under six advertised on www.Sitter.com
* An assistant at Pot Spring Elementary School
* Volunteer with the Girl Scout troop that met at Pot Spring Elementary School and Epworth Church from 2011 to 2015
* Before and After Care program at Pot Spring Elementary School from 2011 to 2014
* Church of the Nativity
* Little Gym in Hunt Valley from July to October of 2016

There are no known victims at locations other than the Church of the Nativity, Baltimore County Police said.

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