Assistant cleric charged with baby sexual battery

The system in the sphere of Polk region give charged an ally cleric with five counts of sexual battery of a baby.

The Polk region Sheriff's administrative center says detectives arrested 40-year-old Arnold Maurice Mathis on Saturday.

Investigators say the victim, who is at present 21, contacted deputies on Friday to tell several incidents of sexual battery in excess of two months in the sphere of 2005. He told detectives he had met Mathis by the side of a basketball game whilst he was 14 and with the aim of the Winter Haven operate on hand to help him financially.

Mathis told detectives he was a laptop battery senior cleric by the side of a Winter Haven cathedral in the sphere of 2005 and is the current assistant cleric of the advanced Praise Ministries in the sphere of Lake Wales.

A message gone by the side of the church's give a buzz citation was not without delay returned.

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