ELKINS (WV)
WBOY 12 [Clarksburg, WV]
October 14, 2025
By Joey Rather, Aaron Williams
12 News has received information after a pastor at an Elkins church was charged earlier this month with soliciting a minor and distributing material depicting minors in sexually explicit activity.
On Tuesday, 33-year-old Kevin Jones, who is a pastor at Summit Church in Elkins, appeared in Randolph County Magistrate Court for a preliminary hearing in this case. Jones’s attorney made motions to have his $50,000 cash-only bail altered and to have the charges thrown out. The magistrate denied those motions.
During Tuesday’s hearing, the alleged victim testified that she did not have sexual contact with Jones until after she turned 18 and that she wants to be in a relationship with him. Another female witness testified that she had contact with Jones when she was underage, but that the contact was not inappropriate.
An investigator in the case stated that they had found more than a million files on Jones’s electronic devices and were still reviewing them. The officer testified that he found photos of the alleged victims that Jones had altered to depict them wearing underwear.
The magistrate found probable cause for the case to continue and bound it over to a grand jury. Jones remains in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.