A 48-year-old Volusia County minister faces decades in prison after a jury this week convicted him of raping a little girl nearly six years ago.
Michael Charles Campbell of DeLand faces as much as 60 years in prison after his conviction Thursday on charges of sexual battery and engaging in sexual conduct with a minor 12 to 18 years of age, the State Attorney’s Office said.
Campbell, a minister in Deland and West Palm Beach, lured the girl to a motel for sex by promising her help with her modeling career with a “skit,” prosecutors and police said. The former Daytona Beach funeral home worker attacked the girl when she was 12 and 13.
In December 2006, he picked the girl up in a hearse with a body inside after telling her father he wanted her to do some work at the funeral home.
They delivered a body to Daytona Beach International Airport and as they drove away, he told the girl that she might have to take her clothes off for the skit.
The girl said he told her he “might have to take a look at you first” and pulled the hearse off the roadway. She said she exposed herself.
Then they drove to a motel, where the girl said Campbell taught her how to put a condom on and kissed and fondled her.
They spent several hours in the room and afterwards, Campbell gave her $44, the girl told police.
In December 2007, the girl was taken to a motel for another “skit,” but that time she tried to resist, even though Campbell told her “it was how Britney Spears and Beyonce got their start.”
We’re not blaming anyone other than this disgusting waste of life but we wish parents out there would stop being so willing to let their young children go off alone with adults; even if they’re the head of the Church.
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