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1178: Kent Prestwich

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Kent Daniel Prestwich was a nursery leader from Lewiston, Utah, for the LDS church. He was arrested in October 2023 for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. An investigator saw an IP address requesting Child Sexual Abuse Material via peer-to-peer and tracked the IP to Prestwich. After executing a search warrant, investigators found nine materials of child sexual exploitation of little girls who appeared to be between six and ten years old. The materials are described in the affidavit.

1175: Gregory Norton

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
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Gregory Norton was a former youth pastor at Oak Hill Church: Church of the Nazarene and the Westside church located on Old Middleburg Road. He was arrested in September, 2023 and charged with sexual battery of a child he met through church and another person he met as a nurse at a children’s hospital. In October , 2023, when he was charged with ten additional counts of sexual battery of a child older than twelve and less than eighteen while he had custodial authority.

1169: Austin Perkins

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming
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Austin Perkins was a youth pastor at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church in Floyd County, Georgia. In 2022, during a child sexual abuse material investigation, seven men were arrested. Perkins was one of those arrested.

He had a child with no home or family in his care whom he was abusing and filming to create Child Sexual Abuse Material. The child was rescued from this abuser.

1165: Erick Allen Mosteller

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Erick Allen Mosteller is a former Church of Latter Day Saints youth leader and a donor to the “Sound of Freedom” crowdfunded film. In a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was sentenced to 250 days in jail and given credit for times served meaning he will be released in six months.

1161: Nicholas Corl

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Sexual Battery
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Nicholas Garrett Corl was a Summit Youth pastor at Mountain Avenue and on the faculty of Calvary Christian School. A fellow employee of Mountain Ave Baptist Church reported seeing Corl acting inappropriately with a minor in the church. His bail was set at $1 million. He is in jail until he can post bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29, 2023.

1158: Kelly Garret Ivey

Trafficking
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Kelly Garret Ivey was a youth group leader at Rock Springs Church. On an underground web site called Slave Bay, he offered to sell information, location, and movements of a young girl from church in order for her to be kidnapped and trafficked. Shockingly, the church failed to notify its congregants who found out about this in the paper.

1149: Aaron Mirtsching

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Aaron Doyle Mirtsching was a youth pastor at Thrive Church and a kindergarten teacher at New Dimensions Charter School in North Carolina. In August, 2023, he was arrested for three counts of exploitation of a child through possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. The material presented children between the ages of 8 to 10 being sexually abused. He was released with a $20,000 bond.