Texas deacon charged with sexually assaulting 2 young boys, police suspect more victims

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HOUSTON —
Court documents provide sickening details of sexual assaults allegedly carried out by 55-year-old Barry Durrell, a volunteer and an ordained deacon at a Houston church.

Police say the victims in the complaint — two boys, ages two and seven — are likely not the only child victims.

Durrell is behind bars on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child and aggravated sexual assault of a child under six years of age.

“The evil person here is this suspect,” Officer Lee Donovan of the Houston Police Department’s Special Victims Division said. “His main point of everything he did was to gain the trust of people in that community, to gain the trust of the people who worked at that church before anything happened.”

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