Megachurch pastor admits he ‘sinned’ after four women accuse him of sexual abuse and forcing them into full-body massages when they were teenagers more than four decades ago

CALIFORNIA
Daily Mail (UK)

Thomas Burrows for MailOnline

, 23 April 2018

A pastor has been placed on leave after allegations surfaced from multiple women who claimed he sexually molested them more than 40 years ago.

Les Hughey is accused of exploiting his position to abuse four women while he was working as a youth pastor at a church in Modesto, in California, in the 1970s.

In response to the report that appeared in the Modesto Bee, Hughey issued a statement saying he had ‘sinned’ during his time at First Baptist Church.

But he claimed he’d only had ‘consensual relations with fellow college-aged staff.’

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