Virginia baptist pastor, Ben Wharton, has been arrested on 30 felony charges of raping children, under the age of 13, at a christian school that was started by his church.
Wharton has served 7 churches in Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama & Florida over the past 4 decades. pic.twitter.com/h00qvae0Vv
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) December 19, 2023
A former pastor of an independent Baptist church in the town of Warsaw in Richmond County is facing 30 felony charges relating to multiple incidents the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office alleges occurred at the church between 1981 and 1997.
Albert Benjamin Wharton, 86, of South Carolina, was arrested in South Carolina at 8:42 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 8 by investigators from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and South Carolina’s Pickens County Sheriff’s Department.