ALABAMA
CBS 42
Natalie Tejeda
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2014
PLEASANT GROVE, Al (WIAT) — Three teenage girls have come forward, claiming a Hueytown pastor abused them. That associate pastor was arrested again today at his lawyers office and is now being held without bond in the Jefferson County jail.
“I thought this was just an isolated incident,” said Earlie Terry. “But to come to find out somebody else is involved…”
Earlie Terry is one of the founding members of the Pleasant Hills Baptist Church, He left about a decade ago but still lives close by. He can’t believe the scandal that’s now surrounding Associate Pastor Tyrone Banks.
“It bothers me and the whole neighborhood you know,” says Terry. “We don’t have anything that happens out here.”
Banks was arrested Sunday for the rape and sodomy of a 13 year old girl. She claimed he brought her to the church and attacked her in the kitchen. Then today Banks was again arrested after a second teenage girl claimed she had been the victim of sexual abuse in his Pleasant Grove home.
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