ESCONDIDO (CA)
CBS News 8 (KFMB-TV)
December 28, 2018
By Abbie Alford
An Orange County pastor faces charges stemming from the alleged abuse of at least one child, police said.
Escondido police arrested John Rodgers McFarland, 66, December 18 on suspicion of child molestation. Escondido police said they arrested McFarland at his Fullerton home for molesting a relative under the age of 14 while visiting family in Escondido several years ago.
Escondido police say they started the child molestation investigation against the pastor, who is also a police chaplain, in November 2018. Fullerton and Fountain Valley police served a search warrant at McFarland’s Fullerton home, his place of employment and Fountain Valley United Methodist Church.
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