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		<title>Child sex abuse charges have been refiled against leader of Missouri church commune</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The renewed charges were filed a month after prosecutor Janice Durbin dismissed all charges against Lambert; his wife, Patty Lambert; and their sister-in-law Laura Epling, the wife of a church deacon. Durbin has said the cases were dropped because of a technical issue.]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth trial ordered in SW Missouri church sex abuse case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wife of a church official is the fourth person ordered to stand trial in a case of alleged sex abuse of young girls at two southwest Missouri church communes.]]></description>
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		<title>Johnston pleads not guilty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An attorney for George Otis Johnston entered a not guilty plea to eight felony sexual abuse charges during his arraignment this morning. Johnston, pastor of Grandview Valley Independent Baptist Church in Granby, is accused of seven unclassified felony counts of first degree statutory sodomy and one Class C felony charge of second degree statutory sodomy.]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri pastor accused of molesting girls to go on trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ One of six church leaders accused of ritually molesting girls at two southwest Missouri churches will stand trial on allegations that he fondled a young teenager as often as once a week over at least three years.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge takes testimony under advisement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ After more than two hours of testimony from two alleged victims, a Newton County judge has taken the case against two McDonald County church leaders accused of child sexual abuse under advisement. Judge Greg Stremel said this afternoon he wanted to review a court transcript of testimony in a preliminary hearing for Raymond Lambert, pastor of the Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church.]]></description>
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		<title>Child Sex Case Rocks Religious Commune</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHBURN, Mo. &#8212; Turning their backs on the isolated religious commune in the rugged Ozarks where many had grown up, a group of members fled with only the clothes on their back, trudging several miles down a gravel road to the nearest phone to call friends or family for help.
A woman in the group soon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri pastor free on bond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Granby minister faces eight counts of sodomy in an inquiry into child sex abuse.
A southwest Missouri minister who was charged Tuesday with eight counts of sodomy turned himself in early Friday afternoon to authorities in Newton County.
George Otis Johnston, 63, is accused in an investigation of alleged child sexual abuse at a church compound in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More children removed from Ozarks church amid sex abuse case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) &#8212; Eight more children were taken into protective custody Thursday at a southwest Missouri church compound whose leader is being sought on felony warrants for allegedly sexually abusing a former female church member when she was a child.
Newton County Chief Deputy Chris Jennings said he believes authorities have now taken all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complaints allege years of sex abuse by pastor, family members</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHBURN, Mo. - Neighbors of a rural Ozarks church community were tightlipped Wednesday about allegations that the pastor, his wife and her two brothers sexually abused young girls from their congregation for years, sometimes as part of a religious ritual.
Felony complaints including child molestation and sodomy were filed last week by the McDonald County prosecutor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authorities searching for  pastor charged with felony sodomy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Newton County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is searching for a Newton County pastor who has been charged with eight counts of felony sodomy.
Sheriff Ken Copeland has issued an arrest warrant for George Johnston, 63, 1939 Hebron Road, Granby.
An official with the sheriff&#8217;s department said Johnston&#8217;s church broke off from the Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church. On [...]]]></description>
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