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"Hypocrite, you must firstly throw-out the beam from your eye and then you will throughly-observe to throw-out the speck from your brother's eye. "

Man arrested for child sex abuse while serving church in '70s
By United Methodist News Service
Posted on: 06/05/2002


A United Methodist layman is in jail for allegedly molesting two boys while serving as a probationary clergy member in Southern California during the 1970s.

Gary Allen Carsonhull, 57, faces 18 counts of lewd acts with a child, according to the news reports. Arrested on May 21, he will be arraigned June 12 and is being held in lieu of $900,000 bail.

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The alleged abuse occurred when Carsonhull was a probationary member working toward full clergy membership in the conference that covers Southern California, now called the California-Pacific Annual Conference. Carsonhull allegedly molested the boys between 1975 and 1979, according to the Associated Press, citing a criminal complaint. The alleged acts occurred as he participated in field trips and other activities involving the youth group of a Long Beach church, authorities said. The Long Beach church is also named Los Altos United Methodist Church.

Since local media carried accounts of Carsonhull's arrest, additional people have contacted police, some of whom also alleged that youth minister also molested them during the 1970s.

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