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Last updated on Friday, December 7, 2012
(FORT WAYNE) - Prosecutors have charged the pastor of a Fort Wayne church with repeatedly molesting a young girl who was a foster child in his care.
The Associated Press reports, Allen County court documents say 50-year-old James Burton inappropriately touched the girl who was younger than 14 between June 2009 and early this year.
Documents say the child told a school employee that her foster father had been molesting her and told investigators the molestations began when she was 6 or 7 years old.
The Journal Gazette reports Burton has been the pastor of Greater Faith Baptist Church. Burton was arrested Wednesday and jailed on four felony child molesting charges.
A call to the church seeking comment Thursday was answered with a message saying its voicemail was full. Court records didn't list a defense attorney.
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