Crime & Safety

Buford Pastor Charged With Child Molestation

The suspect, an Auburn resident, was serving as pastor of a Buford church at the time of his arrest.

Henry Ellis Lackey, 59, a pastor at a Buford church, was arrested Tuesday by officers with the Auburn Police Department.

According to the report, the suspect is charged with one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes, one count of child molestation and one count of aggravated sodomy stemming from an incident that reportedly occurred four years ago when the child was 10 years old and lived in the same neighborhood as the suspect.

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