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William Galbreath, pastor of Harvest Holiness Church in Salem, South Carolina, stands accused of a dozen counts of criminal sexual conduct, multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and assault charges.
An Oconee County preacher is facing child sex crime charges. The Sheriff’s Office says 57-year-old William Franklin Galbreath of Salem was arrested today on a dozen counts of criminal sexual conduct, multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and assault charges.
The Sheriff’s Office was tipped off by investigators from Tennessee who working a case in which Galbreath reportedly sexually assaulted a minor.
Galbreath allegedly started sexually assaulting a victim in 2019 while she was a child and did so in her teenage years from 2022 until this year.
Later, a 2nd victim, also a teenager, was discovered later. Galbreath is the Pastor of Harvest Holiness Church in Salem.
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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Salem is near my hometown. There is absolutely nothing holy about this creep!