Minister charged with sex crimes involving young girls

AL.com ^ | Jan 11, 2005 | The Associated Press

[TankerKC]

WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — The minister of a Wetumpka church is in jail today charged with sexually abusing two young girls. Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said 38-year-old Garett Albert Dykes, also of Wetumpka, is charged with three counts of sexual abuse, three counts of production of obscene matter of someone under 17 and one count of sodomy.

Franklin said Dykes admitted he had inappropriate contact with the two girls under the age of ten. He said a parent of one of the girls contacted his office about the alleged abuse.

Dykes, who served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, is in the Elmore County Jail in lieu of one-point-five (m) million dollars bond.

Franklin said additional charges could be filed.

[Graybeard58]

I checked the registry for my county alone once. Shocking.

I live in a medium sized county in Illinois and there are hundreds registered here.

I guess a "few" do make it out of jail after all.

[IronMan04]

I got the rope

I got a knife I am sure the prison choir could use a soprano.

[Juana la Loca]

What part of Dykes admitted he had inappropriate contact with the two girls under the age of ten don't you understand?

Step off newbie troll.

[mlc9852]

Once he gets a lawyer, he won't have admitted anything.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Defendants are "innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law". The rest of us are free to use our intellect and powers of observation to conclude otherwise at any time.