(WILMINGTON STAR NEWS) — NEW HANOVER COUNTY, North Carolina — A former youth pastor was arrested this week on a sexual assault allegation from 2013.
Donald Dwayne Ramsey, 45, is charged with felony second-degree sexual offense. He was arrested July 24 at his home in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on the New Hanover County warrant.
New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office investigators picked Ramsey up from Ohio on Sunday, said Sgt. Jerry Brewer. According to Brewer, Ramsey was a youth pastor at Peace Baptist Church on Military Cutoff Road.
The alleged offense took place while Ramsey was working in his capacity as youth pastor and at a time when he was supposed to be taking the 16-year-old female victim to the church, Brewer said.