NORTH CAROLINA
Salisbury Post
By Jeanie Groh
A Kannapolis youth pastor has been charged with felony sex offenses with a 13-year-old church member.
Benjamin Ross Hollifield, 25, of the 1000 block of Buck Board Lane in Salisbury, has been charged with four counts of felony indecent liberties with a child and 10 counts of felony statutory rape or sex offense with a minor six or more years younger than himself.
The incidents took place between Feb. 15 and March 8.
Hollifield was the youth and outreach pastor at Piedmont Baptist Church, and has since been terminated from his position.
A statement on the church’s website said “Piedmont Baptist Church reports all matters of potential child abuse to the authorities, as was done in this case by our senior pastor.”
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