Youth pastor on trial in molesting

[Ian David]

Youth pastor on trial in molesting
By Rebecca S. Green
The Journal Gazette

HUNTINGTON – The trial of a Huntington County youth pastor accused of child molesting began Wednesday, with a nearly daylong jury selection process.

Kevin Whitacre, 34, is on trial on two counts of child molesting, both Class C felonies punishable by up to eight years in prison. He is accused of fondling a then-10-year-old girl when she visited his family’s apartment in Good Shepherd Church, 1280 Hitzfield St., in the summer of 2005. He was arrested in March 2006.

Whitacre did not know the girl through his work at the church.

During her opening statement, Huntington County Prosecutor Amy Richison told the four-woman, eight-man jury that no matter how great things looked in Whitacre’s life from the outside, nobody knew what happened behind closed doors.

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