A jury trial for the pastor of a Baltimore County church charged with sexually abusing an underage parishioner begins today in Howard County Circuit Court.

Gerald Fitroy Griffith, 40, of the Redemption Christian Fellowship Church, on the 6500 block of Dogwood Road, is charged with three counts of sexually abusing a youth who was 14 in November 2003 when the abuse allegedly began, according to court documents.

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