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Brett Kitko, pastor of The Phoenix at Central Park Church in Kernersville, North Carolina, stands accused of indecent liberties with a child and statutory rape/sex offense with a child.
A Winston-Salem man is facing child sex crime charges, according to court records.
Brett Martin Kitko, 50, of Winston-Salem, is accused in the warrant of having sex with a child.
Kitko is being charged with indecent liberties with a child and statutory rape/sex offense with a child.
According to the warrant, the offenses took place in August 2001. Kitko was taken into custody on Aug. 19.
The Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office confirms Kitko’s employment as senior pastor at Phoenix Church.
Kitko was given a $300,000 unsecured bond and appeared in court on Monday.
Kitko’s attorney told FOX8 that he will be pleading not guilty.
Bruce Gerencser, 68, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 47 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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