Ex-youth pastor at Clayton Presbyterian church charged with sodomy, child molestation

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

April 16, 2018

By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch

UPDATED at 3:45 p.m. with statement from church and detail that the suspect was fired from his church job.

CLAYTON • A former youth pastor at the Central Presbyterian Church in Clayton has been charged with child molestation and statutory sodomy.

Andrew Dickson, 30, of the 800 block of McKnight Road in University City, was charged April 9 in St. Louis County Circuit Court with one count of child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy.

Charging documents say that the crimes occurred between March 1 and April 1, and Dickson admitted to fondling and engaging in oral sex with a minor.

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