A children’s pastor who was once a televangelist for PTL Network — the American evangelical Christian television network originally founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — has been arrested on child sex abuse charges.
Former Pentecostal preacher Joseph Lyle Campbell, 68, has been charged with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16 for crimes that allegedly occurred in 1984 while Campbell was the youth pastor at the Eastland Assembly of God Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“Between May 1 and Oct. 1 of that year, he allegedly raped a girl age 11 or 12...
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