Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, USA · 2026

United States: West Virginia pastor found guilty of sexually-motivated battery against a congregant during spiritual counseling

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor, Victory Apostolic Church

Organization

Victory Apostolic Church, Flatwoods

Spiritual nexus

Allen, pastor of Victory Apostolic Church, was alone with the victim specifically because she had come to him for spiritual counseling on personal matters; that pastoral-counseling context is what put them alone together and is the mechanism the prosecution built the sexually-motivated finding on.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2026-05-08 · bench-trial guilty verdict; sentencing scheduled

Braxton County Magistrate Court, West Virginia. Found guilty after a two-day bench trial of sexually-motivated misdemeanor battery; sentencing set for May 27, 2026, with a maximum of one year in jail and a mandatory 10-year sex-offender registration due to the sexually-motivated finding.

Documented coercion mechanisms

one-on-one spiritual counseling session used to isolate the victim

Primary record

Sources

state newswire court reporting criminal disposition and nexus WV MetroNews, "Braxton County pastor convicted of sexually motivated battery" (May 8, 2026).: Court report confirming the bench-trial guilty verdict, the spiritual-counseling context of the assault, and the sex-offender registration consequence.
wire service court reporting corroboration KBTX, "Pastor found guilty after reaching up skirt of church member seeking spiritual counseling" (May 13, 2026).: Wire-syndicated report naming the spiritual-counseling setting explicitly as the access context for the assault.
local television court reporting corroboration WCHS-TV, "Braxton County pastor found guilty of 'sexually motivated' battery, prosecutors say.": Local television corroboration of the guilty verdict and sentencing date.

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