Ohio Pastor Arrested On Two Felony Child Sex Charges

The Monroe News reports:

Robert Auxter, 75, of Monroe, who had been a pastor and a deacon at Monroe’s Grace Lutheran Church, is charged with two felony counts of gross sexual imposition by the Ottawa Common Pleas Court of Ottawa County in Port Clinton, Ohio. According to court documents, he is charged with having sexual contact with a person younger than age 13. Auxter’s pretrial hearings have been set for Dec. 28 and Jan. 18. A jury trial is set for Jan. 31.

Read the full article. In most of these cases, the accused is described as a “former pastor” because they’ve been fired by the time the arrest hits the news.

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