‘Dope-smoking pedophile preacher’ arrested for child sex crimes in Florida

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42-year-old pastor Timothy Chaneyfield faces numerous charges after investigators said he lured a 14-year-old boy he met on a dating app and exposed him to HIV during multiple sexual encounters. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd provided details at a press conference. MORE INFO: Investigators said Chaneyfield connected with the teen on a dating app before moving their communications to Instagram. Chaneyfield, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, picked up the boy three times in front of the child's neighborhood and drove him to his home in Eagle Lake for sex. "On those three different occasions he wasn’t preaching, but he was messing around," Judd stated. Deputies arrested Chaneyfield when he returned from Baltimore, where they said he performed a funeral through his hospice work. Sheriff Judd said Chaneyfield confessed to the acts. "He confessed," Judd said. "He confessed that he picked up this 14-year-old child on at least three different occasions, took him to Timothy’s

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