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Traveling Church Youth Group Leader In Virginia Convicted Of Grooming, Abusing Minors: Feds Traveling Church Youth Group Leader In Virginia Convicted Of Grooming, Abusing Minors: Feds
Traveling Church Youth Group Leader In Virginia Convicted Of Grooming, Abusing Minors: Feds A federal judge has convicted a traveling church youth group leader in Virginia of grooming and soliciting minors in his care, authorities announced. Charles Willoughby III, 39, of Norwalk, a group leader at the New Life Worship Center, will face up to 30 years after being convicted at trial on charges of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor over the course of more than five years between 2006 and 2012. Prosecutors say that Willoughby routinely groomed minor teenage girls who were part of the church’s youth program in order to attempt to sexually abuse them…