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Deputies: Couple Broke Into Church For Sex

POSTED: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Baker County deputies investigating a report of a suspicious person at North Prong Cemetery Church found a woman inside and a man hiding under the church. They told investigators they broke in so they could have sex on the altar.

Arriving deputies said they found the door of the church on county Road 210 busted out and undergarments scattered on the floor. They found Crystal Ann Rowland, 24, hiding behind the pulpit and Matthew Thomas Pearce, 28, hiding in the crawl space under the church.

Pearce told deputies that he had Rowland were drinking when she told him she wanted a "spiritual and sexual experience." Deputies said Rowland broke into the little-used church located next to the North Prong Cemetery near Sanderson.

"This is pretty disturbing -- that somebody would something such as this at a place of worship," said Gerald Gonzalez of the Baker County Sheriff's Office.

Both were charged with damage to property, criminal mischief and burglary. They are still being held in the Baker County Jail.
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