A 41-year old man serving as a pastor at a Pella church has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse and exploitation.
Patrick Edouard was a pastor at the Covenant Reformed Church in Pella.
According to court papers filed on Thursday, Edouard sexually abused three "emotionally dependent" women, and had sexual contact with a fourth.
Court documents said all four victims went to him for private counseling.
They go on to state that some of the acts took place in the basement of a home on Cedar Street in Pella, a place that Edouard used as a study. The documents say the women told him to stop or resisted, but he "overpowered them" and then threatened them, to keep them quiet.
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