Man with ties to Middleburg church jailed on sexual battery charges

Man with ties to Middleburg church jailed on sexual battery charges

For the past year, 53-year-old Christopher Pledger has been locked up in the Clay County Jail, accused of sexual battery, records show.Investigators with the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said a woman came forward in 2016, saying he began sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old. She told deputies Pledger began forcing her to have sex with him around 15 or 16 years old. An arrest warrant shows she told investigators that the abuse contin…