Kentucky Megachurch Pastor Charged With Child Rape

July 3, 2024 Crime, Religion

The Christian Post reports:

Zachary King, a pastor with “significant experience serving in youth ministry” at multiple megachurches, including LexCity Church in Lexington, Kentucky, from which he recently resigned as executive pastor, has been charged with the rape and sexual abuse of a minor.

A press release from the office of Attorney General of Kentucky, Russell Coleman, said King, 47, who preached at LexCity Church as recently as three months ago, was also charged with the unlawful use of electronics to engage in sexual acts with a minor.

According to his LinkedIn profile, King has significant experience serving in youth ministry, including at Craig Groeschel’s Life.Church and Metropolitan Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, where he spent more than eight years.

Lexington’s NBC affiliate reports:

According to an arrest citation, Zachary King consented to an interview with the Department of Criminal Investigations in Attorney General Russell Coleman’s Office, in which he stated that he had “engaged in a sexual relationship with a minor over the course of the last year and a half.”

The citation goes on to state that King told the investigator that he had “sexual intercourse with the minor starting at age 15 in January 2023, continuing until April 2024.”

During the interview, the citation says he also admitted to having “sexual intercourse in the minor’s home, at his residence, and at the church where he was a former pastor.”

Lexington’s Fox affiliate reports:



Arrest records show that, after being confronted by the congregation regarding the ongoing investigation into his conduct, he resigned as pastor of the church.

King was arrested on Monday and booked into the Fayette County Detention Center. He was charged with: Procuring or promoting use of minor by electronic means, first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, third-degree rape, third-degree sodomy, and first-degree sexual abuse.


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