UPDATED::My pastor was my rapist': Alabama preacher accused of sexual torture, abuse of multiple children | AL.com

UPDATE::  Daughter of Alabama pastor witnessed him sexually abuse minor, court filing states

When former Clarke County pastor Mack Charles Andrews Jr. stands trial in November on charges of raping and sexually abusing and torturing multiple young girls, prosecutors want to introduce evidence of other similar crimes.

District Attorney Spencer Walker last week filed a motion stating he wants to introduce evidence Andrews sexually abused other young girls, crimes for which he was never charged. The evidence, he wrote, would "establish the Defendant's motive and unnatural sexual desire for underage girls."

Some of the abuse, the filing states, was witnessed by Andrews' daughter.

UPDATE::  Trial set for Alabama pastor accused of raping children

A former Alabama pastor accused of sexually abusing, torturing and raping multiple minors is set to stand trial in November, according to court records.

Mack Charles Andrews Jr., 55, is expected to stand trial starting November 16 in Clarke County, those records show.

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Jane said she lost her virginity to her pastor on her father's grave when she was just 9 years old.

It was, she said, the culmination of two years of "grooming" at the hands of Mack Charles Andrews, pastor of the strictly conservative United Pentecostal Church in Thomasville. Jane is a pseudonym to protect the identity of the victim.

"He told me if I didn't say anything, he would come back and put flowers on the grave," Jane said. "If I did, he said demons would come and get me from my bed."

Jane hopes 55-year-old Andrews, jailed for nearly two years on multiple sex offenses involving multiple minors, will spend the rest of his life in prison.

"My ex-pastor is my rapist," she told AL.com.

Court records show Andrews is set for a settlement docket Tuesday at 9 a.m. At a settlement docket, judges typically ask whether a defendant wants to enter into a plea agreement.

Efforts to reach Andrews' court appointed attorney, Jan Jones, were not immediately successful Friday.

Andrews was arrested on Oct. 3, 2013 on multiple counts of rape, sexual abuse, attempted rape, sodomy and sexual torture, according to court records. He is being held at the Clarke County Jail on $500,000 bond.

'My pastor was my rapist': Alabama preacher accused of sexual torture, abuse of multiple children | AL.com

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