Former Waco-area pastor indicted on child sex charges

KWTX-TV News 10

WACO (June 17, 2009) -- William Frank Brown, 45, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bellmead, was named in an eight-count indictment Wednesday stemming from a series of child sexual abuse incidents involving two girls that starte d four years ago in another state.

The indictment handed up by the McLennan County Grand Jury charges four counts of indecency with a child by contact and four counts of aggravated sexual assault.

Brown was arrested in April, police said, after one of the victims told a school counselor about the sexual abuse, which started when the girls were between 9 and 10 years of age.

Brown turned himself in after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest, police said.

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SNAP Note: First Baptist Church of Bellmead is shown as a church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.