Former youth pastor charged with rape
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Daron Lee Fanakos, 29, who was on the staff at Clarksville Family Bible Church until last year, was arrested Friday following a grand jury indictment charging him with 22 counts of statutory rape.
Sheriff?s department juvenile investigator Keith Fabor would not say whether the girl was a member of the church or if police believe Fanakos had contact with her there.
April Cook, a pastor at the church, said Fanakos left the church in the summer of 2005 but declined to comment further on Friday when reached by The Leaf-Chronicle.
Fabor said Fanakos? relationship with the girl began in May 2005 and continued until the fall, when the girl?s mother sought help from juvenile authorities.
Juvenile Court Judge Ray Grimes issued an order of protection in October against Fanakos, whose oldest child is two years younger than the girl he is accused of abusing, Fabor said.
Fanakos denied having a sexual relationship with the girl when he was questioned in November, but admitted that the two talked on the phone for long periods of time ? violating the order of protection more than once by such contact, Fabor said.
In December, he was found guilty of violating the order and served a sentence of about 45 days in the Montgomery County Workhouse.