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Randall Carter, a youth pastor at an unnamed church and a fifth grade teacher at Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, stands accused of rape of a child, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Fox-4KC reports that Carter allegedly assaulted two girls under the age of fourteen. Carter denies the charges. His lawyer, Philip Sedgwick, attempted to cast doubt on the allegations by saying:
You have to wonder why somebody would take that long to say something about what happened to them.
Carter’s bond was reduced from $500,000 to $250,000. If Carter posts bail, the judge ordered “he must wear [an] ankle monitor and can not be around children, including his own.”
