Dallas Adult Entertainment: Baptist ministers facing sex charges appear in court
By Bob Allen
LIBERTY, MO — Southern Baptist ministers facing molestation charges in three states had recent days in court.
Robert M. Black, 40, pastor of New Home Baptist Church near St. Joseph, Mo., pleaded not guilty June 18 to felony counts of first-degree statutory rape and attempted enticement of a child.
Black was arrested April 8 after allegedly soliciting sex over the Internet with a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl. He is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 14.
A grand jury in Waco, Texas, indicted William Frank Brown, 45, June 17 on four counts of sexual assault of a child and four counts of indecency with a child.
Brown, who resigned as pastor of First Baptist Church in Bellmead, Texas, just before the investigation became public, stands accused of molesting two children in incidents that began about four years ago in another state.