MARATHON, Fla. – A 62-year-old guy who served as a First Baptist Church pastor when a teenage girl accused him of giving her a spiked drink and sexually abusing her gave the impression in courtroom on Saturday in the Florida Keys.
Rev. Monte LaVelle Chitty, a registered police volunteer, gave the impression earlier than Monroe County Circuit Judge James W. Morgan III on the Marathon Courthouse dressed in a gentle blue jumpsuit and handcuffs.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Chitty on March 4 after they discovered incriminating textual content messages to the girl together with, “I prefer you pass out after I play not before” and “You can’t even remember what I did.”
He was once launched on a $75,000 bond.
“While you were out on bail, you committed a new crime,” Morgan mentioned about his failure to seem in courtroom.
According to deputies, Chitty had fled to Texas, and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested him on April 5 at Woodville on Morgan’s warrant.
Chitty was once going through fees of sexual battery on a kid, delinquency of a minor, and lewd and lascivious molestation on a kid.
Morgan set his bond for the sexual battery rate at $1 million.
The bonds for the opposite two fees had been $300,000, and the bond for the failure to seem rate was once $100,000.
The general bond: $1.4 million.
“If you post bail, I am ordering you to report to pre-trial services once a week,” Morgan informed Chitty in courtroom.
The pass judgement on additionally ordered Chitty to put on a GPS ankle track and canopy its price.
Local 10 News Reporter Janine Stanwood and Assignment Desk Editor Joyce Grace Ortega contributed to this record.
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