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Youth Pastor Faces Sex Charge
A church youth director has been charged with sexual battery on a 14-year-old boy, authorities said.
Posted — UpdatedMAXTON, N.C. —
Editor's Note: A Robeson County judge found Harold Dean Jacobs not guilty of the misdemeanor sexual battery charge in Jan. 2008.
A church youth director has been charged with sexual battery on a 14-year-old boy, authorities said.
Harold Dean Jacobs, 54, of 543 Hezekiah Road, was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery. He was released on an unsecured bond and has a court appearance scheduled for Nov. 16.
The charge is in connection with a February incident after a youth function at Prospect United Methodist Church, authorities said. The boy, now 15, isn't a member of the church, authorities said.
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