South Carolina youth pastor Daniel Kellan Mayfield was arrested and charged last week after allegedly filming multiple women and girls showering or using the restroom at church.
Daniel Kellan Mayfield, 35, who served as youth pastor at Gowensville Baptist Church in Landrum, was arrested and charged last week with five counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of voyeurism.
The woman and her sister reportedly found the pastor alone in the backyard after she saw a light outside the bathroom window, according to an incident report.at least five more victims, some of whom were allegedly filmed in the bathroom of the church, according to FOX Carolina. Mayfield is accused of setting up a camera there and filming girls as young as 14 on at least three occasions dating back as far as July 2022.
"You would never think someone you know — that's like a family, because that's what our church is, it's like a family — you would never think something so devastating would happen in that little circle of people," Isabella Godfry, a member of the church, toldDaniel Kellan Mayfield, 35, admitted to filming a woman while she showered in her mother's bathroom, according to deputies.
"I’m concerned about my wife and my daughters being on that camera," Benjamin Green, another church member,First Baptist Gowensville confirmed to the local outlet that Mayfield was a student pastor at the church, but that he was fired upon his arrest. A
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