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Waco Tribune
By PHILLIP ERICKSEN pericksen@wacotrib.com and KRISTIN Hoppa khoppa@wacotrib.com
A Hillsboro pastor and student at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary was arrested Monday, accused of sexually assaulting a child after a mother allegedly caught him with her daughter in a car.
Benjamin Nelson, 27, was booked into Hill County Jail after Whitney police found him at his home in Waco.
Nelson was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one charge of deadly conduct, which came because Nelson allegedly drove recklessly near the child’s mother while leaving the scene in a Whitney shopping center, according to Whitney police.
According to his Facebook page, Nelson is pastor of Peoria Baptist Church and a student at Truett Seminary.
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