FLORIDA
Tampa Bay Times
Kathryn Varn, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
LARGO — The director of children’s ministry at Anona United Methodist Church and a prominent member of the local theater and dance community has been arrested after police said he inappropriately touched a 14-year-old girl.
Domenic Victor Bisesti, 31, faces a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation after the girl told police he touched her buttocks several times and tried to kiss her at the church at 13233 Indian Rocks Road, according to Largo police. Investigators and church officials don’t know of any other victims.
Jack Stephenson, senior pastor at Anona, said Wednesday that the church has removed him from programming and barred him from campus pending the investigation.
“He’s turned in his keys, he will not be on campus, he’s cleaned out his office,” Stephenson said.
Bisesti was also involved in Eight O’Clock Theatre, a community theater group based in the Central Park Performing Arts Center, and Tutterow Dance Academy, a well-known local dance troupe.
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