Pastor Zachary, a megachurch pastor in Kentucky who is “an experienced youth pastor,” has been indicted on charges of raping and sexually abusing a minor. be press release King, 47, was arrested in Kentucky by the Attorney General’s Office. King, who has “extensive experience serving as a youth pastor” at multiple megachurches, including Rex City Church in Lexington, Kentucky, where he preached about three months ago, is also charged with unlawful use of an electronic device to engage in sexual conduct with a minor. Also He resigned as executive pastor.
King is currently being held in the Fayette County Detention Center and is charged with first- and second-degree rape, and first- and second-degree sodomy. Rex 18At Tuesday’s arraignment, King’s attorney asked Judge John Tackett to set bail at $50,000. This The judge ordered the pastor to pay $5,000, or 10 percent of the bail amount, but the judge set the pastor’s bail at $250,000.
According to Lex18, King’s arrest warrant states that during an interview with Coleman’s office, he confessed to “having engaged in sexual relations with a minor within the past year and a half.”
Reports say The Christian StandtThe megachurch pastor also confessed to having “sexual intercourse with a minor beginning in January 2023 when the minor was 15 years old and continuing through April 2024,” adding that he “had sexual intercourse at the minor’s home, at his residence, and at the church where he was previously a pastor.”
Fox 56 reported that King admitted to contacting the girl via Snapchat and WhatsApp to arrange meetings and receive lewd photos from her, and on one occasion he picked her up from his home and had sex with her in his car.
After being denounced by his congregation, King reportedly resigned from the Rex City church.
Coleman’s office asks that anyone with further information about additional alleged criminal activity by King please call the Criminal Investigations Bureau hotline at 866-524-3672 or email address.
According to his LinkedIn profile, King has extensive experience as a youth pastor, having served for more than eight years at Craig Groeschel’s Life Church and Metropolitan Baptist Church in Houston, Texas.
2022 PodcastOff the RecordSpeaking on “The Young Times,” hosted by Rex City Church Senior Pastor Brian Klassen, King said she felt her needs were not being met and was struggling in her 24-year marriage.
“Sometimes I feel frustrated, my needs aren’t being met, [I’m] “The thing that frustrates me and frustrates me that I shouldn’t be frustrated with is when my wife and I are not in touch, we don’t talk about it, and we just let it go,” King said at the time.
“We become really good co-parents and roommates during those times when we just have to get the kids to the next place and just get through the next day, just survive until bedtime,” King continued.
“So the things that really bother me are usually just treating the symptoms and not treating the root of the problem, so I just have to sit there and pray and ask the Lord to reveal to me the root, which is usually myself. My frustration is actually something that I’m not doing, so it’s really It’s not you, it’s me In this scenario.”
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