Pastor at Virginia Beach's Rock Church steps down after being charged with soliciting sex with minor [View all]
A day after news broke that the lead pastor of Virginia Beach’s Rock Church had been charged with soliciting sex from an underage girl, the church announced he will step away from all ministerial duties until the case is resolved.
The statement was released Wednesday morning, five days after Pastor John Blanchard was arrested in a sting operation in Chesterfield County.
Police said the operation targeted 17 men who’d been communicating online with someone they believed to be a teenage girl and then arranged to meet the girl at a motel. The person they were communicating with was a police officer.
When each man knocked on the motel room door they were greeted by several police officers, according to Mike Louth, a major with the Chesterfield County Police Department.
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