UPDATE:: Former minister at CBF church confesses to sexting with teenAuthorities allege a Wilson pastor enticed a 16-year-old girl to create child pornography for more than a year.
A former minister at a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-affiliated church in North Carolina has pleaded guilty to enticing and coercing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
Daniel Franklin Heath, who stepped down in May after 10 years on staff at First Baptist Church in Wilson, North Carolina, admitted to a federal court in Texas that he knew the unnamed minor was under 18 and living with her parents in Texas when he asked her to take photos and videos of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct on her cellular phone and send the images to him.
Heath, 33, admitted his communications with the victim were romantic in nature, with both parties declaring themselves to be “in love.” Prosecutors said Heath required the girl to “submit” to him in matters including what to wear and to obtain his consent before touching her own body, but he did not agree with that part of a statement of stipulated facts.
Wilson police charged 33-year-old Daniel Franklin Heath, an associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Wilson with first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
Heath, who has been the church’s associate pastor for three years, was the youth pastor there for seven years prior to his current role.
The FBI contacted the Wilson Police Department in April regarding Heath, who was the subject of an ongoing investigation, according to Sgt. Steve Stroud.
Wilson pastor arrested on child porn charge | The Wilson Times
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