AP continues coverage of McDonald County cult case

Marcus Kabel of Associated Press continued his reporting on the McDonald County sex cult case, as well as its offshoot in Newton County today with the news of the new charge in McDonald County against George Otis Johnston, and his not guilty plea to eight statutory sodomy counts in Newton County.

The gross factor is there from the outset in Kabel's story:

Plying her with what he called "angel kisses" and assurances God had instructed him to "fulfill her needs as a woman," a pastor repeatedly molested a young girl at two reclusive southwest Missouri church communities for nearly a decade, prosecutors in two counties say.