A Baptist pastor has been arrested for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl in Monroe County, Florida.
Monte Lavelle Chitty, 62, a pastor at the First Baptist Church in the city of Marathon, called the police to confess the incident. He said he believed he was about to be accused of something and wanted to get ahead of himself.
The religious leader reported that a young woman in his church had been drinking a lot of liquor and fainted, and that he placed her on a couch in the library.
But the investigation revealed that it was Chitty who gave the teenager alcohol in the temple library until she was completely intoxicated, and when she lost consciousness, he sexually abused her.
Becky Herrin, spokeswoman for the county sheriff's office, toldAmerica TeVe that before that, a person who did not reveal his name called the Police to alert them of a possible rape, after hearing a 15-year-old girl say that an adult had sexually abused her.
While the authorities were searching for the victim, a call was received from the attacker himself.
The minor and her family told police that they think the alcohol she drank could have been adulterated with another substance.
The pastor was arrested on Monday, March 4, at the religious building and accused of sexual assault and lewd conduct against a minor. He is in the Key West jail without bail.
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