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A judge reinstated Melina McPherson’s bond Tuesday and said she would face a jury trial Feb. 3 on a charge of taking indecent liberties with a teen girl whom she supervised at a Christian children’s home in the late 1990s.

McPherson, 38, of Chesapeake, had been jailed since Nov. 17, when Circuit Judge A. Joseph Canada Jr. revoked her bond and rejected a plea deal that called for 40 days in jail. At the time, he said the jail term was inadequate. …

She is charged with molesting a teen girl, and her husband, Stephen, has been convicted of molesting the girl’s two sisters. …

More at the Virginian-Pilot.

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Backstory: Stephen L. McPherson, Pat Robertson’s Ex-Assistant Dean, Sentenced to 16 Years for Rape of His Three Underage Adopted Daughters, June 17, 2009 (more…)

June 17, 2009

Stephen L. McPherson, the former Regent University law school assistant dean convicted of sex acts with underage girls, has been ordered to serve 16 years in prison. …

McPherson pleaded guilty in January to charges of forcible sodomy and object sexual penetration. …

In court Monday, McPherson apologized to his victims, whom he and his wife, Melina, had adopted from Hope Haven Children’s Home in Virginia Beach, prosecutor Karen Brown said. …

McPherson and his wife were indicted by a Virginia Beach grand jury in January on charges of indecent liberties stemming from allegations of illegal sexual acts with three girls while the couple served as house parents at Hope Haven between August 1996 and August 2000. Both were scheduled for trial Tuesday in Virginia Beach Circuit Court, but the cases were continued to Sept. 2. …

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