Baptist Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Charlotte’s ABC affiliate reports:

A former church youth leader in South Carolina who was arrested last year for multiple sex crimes against children has been arrested again after another victim spoke out to investigators. William Pinckney Carpenter III was arrested on Monday for criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Last year, Carpenter was arrested for multiple counts of assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct and sexual conduct with a minor. Carpenter was a youth leader at Eastview Baptist Church in Rock Hill and Grace Chapel Baptist Church in York when four of the alleged offenses took place, according to warrants.

He had been released on bonds totaling more than $150,000 while those charges were pending trial. Some of the victims in those cases were as young as seven years old.

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Warrants say it happened on a bus ride to a church event. https://t.co/6QEL13dBB0

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