VA Pastor Arrested For “Indecent Liberties With Child”

The Northern Virginia Daily reports:

Strasburg police are accusing a local church leader of committing sex crimes against a child four years ago. Mark Newton Heatwole, 65, of Timberville, remains free on bond after his arrest last week on one count of taking indecent liberties with a child under the age of 15.

Sgt. Chris Nixon, of the Strasburg Police Department, states in a criminal complaint dated Wednesday that he investigated a report that sometime between April 1, 2019, and May 30, 2019, Heatwole had exposed himself to a female child at a church.

Nixon goes on to state that the child disclosed during a forensic interview that Heatwole brought her into a bathroom at the church and exposed his private area, and then made her touch the private area.

Read the full article. He’s a Mennonite. So that’s new.