Ex-Episcopal priest accused of child sex assaults in the North Carolina mountains

NORTH CAROLINA
Charlotte Observer

JOE MARUSAK
jmarusak@charlotteobserver.com

April 16, 2018

An ex-Episcopal priest imprisoned in Massachusetts for decades-old child sex crimes is now accused of sexually assaulting two children in the North Carolina mountains.

A Haywood County grand jury has indicted 76-year-old Howard “Howdy” Willard White Jr. on sex assault charges involving a girl and a boy, The Mountaineer newspaper in Waynesville reported. White is accused of the assaults when he served as rector of Grace Episcopal Church in the Mountains in Waynesville in the 1980s, according to the newspaper.

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