Ex-church youth group leader busted in sex assaults…
June 24, 2011 – A 22-year-old former church youth group leader is behind bars charged with sexually assaulting several female members of a church group from 2005 through 2009.
Pennsylvania State Police investigators interviewed several alleged victims and other members of the Grace Fellowship Church, which at the time was located in Newtown Township.
Shorey was the church’s youth group leader at the time of the assaults, according to the affidavit of probable cause written by Trooper Gerard McShea. Five individuals filed a report with state police claiming they were sexually assaulted by Shorey between November 2005 and January 2009, the affidavit states.
Two of the assaults took place on a bus trip to a youth camp in Massachusetts in August 2007, court documents indicate. Another alleged assault took place on a church trip to New York in 2009, the affidavit states.
At the time of the assaults, the victims were juveniles, the complaint states.