MARYLAND
WUSA
Scott Broom, WUSA September 08, 2016
ROCKVILLE, MD (WUSA9) – The youth minister of a well-known Rockville church spent at least two years grooming a girl for eventual sexual abuse, Montgomery County prosecutors said Thursday.
Brian Patrick Werth, 32, was ordered held on $300,000 bail after his first court appearance in the case.
“There was an extended period of grooming,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Hannah Gleason. “He’s a danger to this juvenile and to the community.”
Werth’s relationship with a 16-year old girl he is accused of sexually abusing goes back to middle school prosecutors said.
Werth is accused of meeting the girl in a private area of the St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church on Montrose Road in Rockville the night of May 20th during a youth ministry “lock-in” overnight event.
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