A pastor at a Baptist church in Virginia was arrested Aug. 6 for allegedly pretending to be a teenage boy online to lure young girls into having sexually explicit communications with him. Jacob Ryan Barnett, 34, of Catawba, Virginia, is facing a federal charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a child, according to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Barnett worked as the associate pastor of students and mobilization at Cata...
