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Former Middle GA SBC youth pastor faces 7,000+ child s*x abuse, child s*x abuse material charges, authorities say

John Tyler Moreland, former director of students and families at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Monroe County, was charged with one count of criminal use of communication facility, one count of corruption of minors, 135 counts of photograph/film/depict of computer s*x act, 135 counts of unlawful contact with a minor and 6,770 charges of child s*xual abuse material, according to a 475-page document from Pennsylvania’s online courts portal.

Tennessee school board member who hugged teen and called her ‘hot’ is charged with assault:
The charge stems from an incident on April 2, when Keith Ervin hugged the girl, a student member of the board, and told her, “God, you’re hot.”

WACO — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is under fire for a plea deal his prosecutors offered last month to a Waco man charged with repeatedly s*xually abusing a young boy.

The deal in the case, which Paxton’s office took over about three years ago after the locally elected district attorney recused himself, would have let the man plead guilty to two misdemeanors and serve a total of just one day in jail.

Now Paxton, locked in a heated primary to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, is facing criticism from political opponents who say his office was too lenient toward the man, who admitted that he molested the victim. This comes even as Paxton has built a reputation attacking local district attorneys for being too soft on crime.

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