Florida Pastor Charged with Molesting 15 Year-Old Boy He Met on Grindr
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A Florida pastor has been arrested and charged with molesting a 15 year-old boy he met on the so-called dating app Grindr.
A 48-year-old pastor met a 15-year-old boy on the gay dating app Grindr and then molested the teen in a car at the Matanzas Woods Golf Course, according to a Sheriff’s Office report.
The pastor, Alphonso Joseph, describes himself as “Overseer Alphonso Joseph” on his Facebook page, which features photos of him in clerical robes.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Joseph after finding him and the boy in a car at the golf course at 10:25 p.m., according to Joseph’s arrest report.
The deputies had been responding to a noise complaint about loud music at the golf course when they came across Joseph’s Camry.
When a deputy approached and shined a flashlight at it, deputies saw that the car was shaking. They found Joseph and the boy in the backseat, pulling up their pants, according to the report.
Deputies spoke to the two separately, and discovered that the teen was 15.
The teen said that he’d met Joseph on Grindr and that Joseph had performed a sex act on him in the car.
Joseph at first said the two had been “just chillin’” in the car and that he’d taken off his shirt because it was hot out. But he later admitted to performing a sex act on the boy, telling deputies that the 15-year-old had said that he was 18.
Deputies arrested Joseph.
He is charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a victim 12-16 years of old.
