Missouri Pastor Arrested On Child Molestation Charges

Kansas City’s ABC affiliate reports:

An Independence pastor is facing child molestation charges. Court documents state that multiple people under the age of 18 accused Virgil Marsh of sexually assaulting them between 2011 and 2018. Marsh, 71, is now in the Jackson County jail.

He was charged with two counts of first-degree of child molestation and first-degree statutory sodomy. A probable cause statement indicates that Marsh told police he was a current pastor in Independence and admitted he had “inappropriately touched” one of the victims.

He also told police he has asked for forgiveness with God and is no longer the man who “had previously done things to the victim,” the probable cause reads.

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