Arkansas Pastor Gets 10 Years On Child Sex Charges

December 20, 2024 Crime, Religion

Jonesboro, Arkansas’s CW affiliate reports:

A former Craighead County pastor accused of sexual assault will spend the next decade behind bars. Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Scott Ellington sentenced 58-year-old Anthony Lee Strickland, of Bono, after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual assault. He was charged Nov. 16, 2021, with one count of rape and one count of sexual assault in the second degree involving two girls whose parents attended his church.

After turning 18, the older girl told her parents that when she spent the night with Strickland, he watched a movie with her. She said Strickland began rubbing her genitals and asked her if it felt good. After the girls’ mother was made aware of the allegations, she sat down with her other children and asked them to tell her and her husband if anyone had touched them inappropriately and not be afraid to tell them.

The older girl briefly told her siblings her story, then her then-11-year-old sister broke down crying and said, “Momma, he did that to me, too,” the affidavit states. That child would have been between 5 and 7 years of age at the time.

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