Christian Circuit Court Judge John Atkins heard several motions from the lawyers involved in the First United Methodist daycare child abuse case Friday morning during a Zoom hearing the judge
Four women charged in connection with the alleged abuse of children at the First United Methodist Church daycare will be tried together, according to Christian
Paige Williams and Abby Leach
The attorneys for a former pastor and a former daycare worker indicted last week on additional charges of child abuse that allegedly occurred at the First United Methodist Church daycare appeared virtually in Christian Circuit Court Wednesday morning for an arraignment.
A grand jury returned superseding indictments last Friday for the former pastor at the church, Paige Williams, and former daycare employee Abby Leach, charging them with eight counts of first-degree complicity of criminal abuse of a child 12 or under. They were previously indicted in August 2019 on one count of first-degree complicity of criminal abuse of a child under 12.