Duane Youngblood, author of Freedom From Homosexuality: No Longer Living The Lie, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenager.
Duane Youngblood, author of Freedom From Homosexuality: No Longer Living The Lie and owner of the Higher Call World Outreach Church in Homestead, Pennsylvania, has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a teenager.
The boy, now aged 21, told police that the pastor sexually abused him between 2009 and 2001 while Youngblood was supposed to be counseling him, reports CBS Pittsburgh. Youngblood is also accused of showing the teen an adult movie on his computer.
The pastor reportedly asked his victim not to tell his mother “because he didn't want to get into trouble.”
In his 2006 book, Youngblood "shares insights and truth to help anyone struggling with perversions find a place of forgiveness and deliverance in God."
Neighbors say the pastor, who is a registered sex offender, is married with multiple children.
In 2006, Youngblood was sentenced to one year of intermediate punishment and seven years' probation after he was found guilty of molesting a 15-year-old boy whom he was also counseling.
