GOSNELL, Ark. — A Southern Baptist evangelist and former camp pastor at LifeWay Christian Resources’ FUGE summer youth events has been charged with video voyeurism in a home where he was staying as a house guest while preaching a revival in Arkansas.
Sammy Nuckolls, who lives in Olive Branch, Miss., with a wife and young child, was released on $50,000 bond from Mississippi County Jail in Blytheville, Ark., after giving police taped verbal and written statements admitting he set up a secret camera to record video of the woman of the house taking a shower, according to media reports. The woman told police in Gosnell, Ark., where the home is located, that she noticed Nuckolls had left several items in the bathroom as she prepared to shower, including an oversized pen.
After she left the bathroom Nuckolls went to retrieve the items, including the pen, and took them into his room. After he left the house, she plugged the pen into a computer and discovered it was a spy camera containing video of her in the bathroom.
According to the Blytheville Courier News, Nuckolls told police he had done the same thing to two other women in Mississippi and provided their names. A graduate of Williams Baptist College, Nuckolls received his master of divinity degree from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tenn.
Nuckolls was also charged in Olive Branch, Miss., and police in Waldron, Ark., may file charges, according to news services in Mississippi. Nuckolls has pleaded not guilty on all charges, sources said. (TAB)
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