WOOD COUNTY, Texas (KETK) — Arrest records shed light on a former East Texas pastor who allegedly used the same ruse to lure children and sexually assault them at church.
Timothy Nall’s affidavit indicates the sexual assault took place at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church in Mineola in Fall 2022. According to a deputy’s offense report, a counselor notified deputies of possible sexual abuse to a 4-year-old girl.
The parents of the girl had placed her in counseling sessions after they noticed strange behavior at home that highly alarmed them.
During one of the sessions, the girl reportedly told the counselor of a “bad guy who touches her belly” and referenced getting candy from him. The girl told the counselor she had been touched on her stomach and legs. At some point of the therapy session, the suspect was identified as Timothy Nall who was the full time pastor at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, where the family went to beginning February 2022.
“[The mother] stated on one particular Sunday, after services, she and her husband went looking for their daughter who was inside the church somewhere,” the affidavit stated. “[The mother] said she eventually located her in the church office of Nall sitting on his lap, and she was eating alone. [The mother] said they were in the office alone. However, at the time she didn’t think too much of it.”
The girl allegedly told her mother that Nall had touched her all over, including her private areas. At this point, the child said she was afraid of Nall coming back, as she had revealed the “secret” which Nall, threatened to lock her in the office with the lights turned off and would never see her parents again.
A forensic interview was conducted at the Northeast Texas Child Advocacy Center on Jan. 27 where the child made the same statements against Nall.
Nall was booked into the Smith County Jail on Saturday and was released the following day.
Investigators obtained additional information of a separate case that involved a child where she referred to a bowl of candy in Nall’s office at the same church.
KETK reported on Nall’s previous arrest that stemmed after another victim’s mother saw Nall touching a church member’s daughter inappropriately. Concerned, the mother then asked her children whether they had been touched by Nall. To her dismay, one of her children said they had been touched inappropriately by Nall the past Thursday at church.
A forensic interview was set up where the child said she was touched “by the defendant on her vagina with his finger,” according to documents. The child pointed out the area by using a picture of the female anatomy that the interviewer uses for younger children.
The child said she was touched over her clothes by Nall while she was getting candy in his office, according to documents.
Similar cases against Nall have been brough up in other states including Missouri while he was a pastor for Farmington Baptist Church where he was accused of abusing a young girl when the child was 6 and 7-year-old.
The case ended in a mistrial after two jurors could not agree on a verdict, according to WREG. He was then indicted again for sexual battery and a new count of fondling stemming from the same allegations.
