Ex-South Carolina church youth volunteer pleads guilty to felony child sex crimes. Gets no prison time.

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A former South Carolina church youth volunteer will avoid prison but must register as a sex offender and wear a GPS ankle monitor for life after admitting to illegally touching children in crimes that spanned years, according to York County court records and lawyers in the case.

William Pinckney Carpenter III, 64, of Chester, pleaded guilty Wednesday to four felony counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a child in a hearing at the Moss Justice Center in York for crimes that went from 2011 to 2021, documents show.

The crimes happened when Carpenter was a church volunteer at two Baptist churches in Rock Hill and York, at a private home, and aboard a bus during a church activity, Shelton said.

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How on earth can someone who has an obvious pattern extending over years get out of going to jail for his crimes against children? That's horrific. Stop trusting weirdos with your kids just because they're volunteering at church, people!
 
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How on earth can someone who has an obvious pattern extending over years get out of going to jail for his crimes against children? That's horrific. Stop trusting weirdos with your kids just because they're volunteering at church, people!
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