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	Pastor of Kanawha County Church The Associated Press, carried in Charleston Daily Mail May 3, 2006 http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2006050318/ A Kanawha County preacher has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl who was a student at his church's school. Timothy Charles Edmonds, pastor of the Chesapeake Apostolic Church, was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian. He was being held Tuesday night at South Central Regional Jail on a $50,000 cash-only bond. The investigation began after the 16-year-old girl's parents gave to State Police a letter she had written. The letter detailed intimate kissing allegedly between her and Edmonds, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court by State Police Cpl. L.G. Brewer. The alleged abuse occurred multiple times at the church and at a house Edmonds was remodeling. The girl attended the church's school and Edmonds sometimes supervised the students, the complaint said. The girl allegedly told police that Edmonds made her wear a specific pair of stockings, photographed her in explicit positions and rubbed against her, the complaint said. Officers found a couch and a pair of panty hose the victim described at the house last month, the complaint said. Edmonds told police he was never alone with the girl, the complaint said.
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