Pastor Samuel Chapman jailed on child sex charges
A Decatur man who works as a pastor is in the Clayton County jail on child molestation charges.
Jail records show Samuel Walsham Chapman, 58, was arrested Thursday and charged with child molestation, solicitation of sodomy and enticing a child for indecent purposes.
A warrant states Chapman is a pastor at a Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Jonesboro, according to a Clayton News Daily article.
Calls to the church for confirmation and comment were not retued.
The warrant says Chapman performed a sexual act in front of a 15-year-old boy and asked for oral sex.
The boy denied the request and his grandmother contacted authorities.
Chapman has been denied bond.
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