Alabama Pastor Held on $24.2 million Bond
October 29, 2009Ralph Lee Aaron, 54, a former Baptist pastor in Andalusia, Alabama, was arrested on October 21 on 152 counts of child sexual assault image possession and child sexual abuse. According to the Associated Baptist Press, Aaron was investigated while at his former church in 2005 for allegedly making a verbal sexual advance to a youngster. No charges were filed, because it was a misdemeanor and the statute of limitations had run out by the time the complaint was filed.
Although most of the charges are for production of child sexual assault images, three counts are for sexual torture, three are for first-degree sodomy and eight are for sexual abuse of a child younger than 12.
Aaron is being held in the Covington County Jail, and shows no remorse, say officials.
