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In October of that year, the affidavit says, she was asked to come to the church office after services on a Sunday, and Russell allegedly asked her to take off her clothes. He told her it was a way for her to get “closer to God,” the affidavit states. The woman told investigators that he photographed her in the nude and kept the photos in a brown folder in a church office.
From September 2003 through February 2004, Russell continued to see her in a church office, touching her inappropriately, the affidavit states. He allegedly progressed to oral sex with her in December 2003 or January 2004 as often as once a week and usually on Sunday afternoons, the document states. They allegedly had sexual intercourse for the first time in May or June of 2004, before her 17th birthday, according to the affidavit. The intercourse allegedly was repeated four or five times before she came of age and took place on a futon in the church office, she told investigators. The affidavit states that the photographs discovered in the church office are dated 2003. The court document does not state what the woman’s age is today. The sheriff said she is about 20. Barnett, the detective, spoke to Russell about the allegations, according to the affidavit, and Russell allegedly acknowledged photographing the girl when she was 16. He also allegedly acknowledged a first sexual encounter in Morse Park and subsequent occasions of oral sex. He allegedly told Barnett that he thought the girl was 18 when they had sexual intercourse for the first time. The investigation marks the second fringe church to become the focus of a sex-abuse scandal in Newton County in the past two years. George Otis Johnston, pastor of Grandview Valley Baptist Church North near Granby, came under investigation in 2006 after two former members of his congregation came forward alleging sexual abuse when they were minors. Johnston, 65, is awaiting trial on 15 counts of statutory sodomy and two counts of child molestation in a case that has been moved to Barton County on a change of venue. He also faces a single count of child molestation in a second case, with the venue switched to McDonald County. Jake Skouby, Newton County prosecutor, said Wednesday that there was no apparent connection between Grandview Valley Baptist Church North and the Acts II Church. “There is no connection between this preacher abuse and any other individual charges with similar activities in the past that we’ve uncovered as yet,” Skouby said. Bond posted 
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