BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former youth pastor in East Texas has pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge.

Authorities say that when Trevion Lechay Ethridge was a youth pastor at a Newtown County church, he persuaded a minor to video record and photograph pornographic images and then send them to Ethridge by cellphone from November 2012 to March 2013.

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