A Wood County pastor has been arrested on a charge of indecency with a child/sexual contact July 18.

Timothy Daniel Nall, 68, pastor at Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, east of Mineola on FM 49, was booked into the Smith County jail on a Wood County warrant. 

He resides in Holly Lake Ranch and has pastored the church about four years.

Wood County Deputy Josh O’Grady of the criminal investigation division filed the arrest affidavit.

O’Grady reported the victim’s mother observed the defendant touching another member of the church’s daughter. It was later found the placement of the hand on the child was slightly above the pubic area which Nall at first denied. 

This caused the mother concern and led her to ask her children if they had been touched inappropriately to which her four-year old daughter mentioned she had been touched by Nall at church.

O’Grady also noted there was concern from the mother who was aware of previous allegations when Nall was a pastor in Mississippi. The report said there was another investigation pertaining to a teenager in Arkansas where Nall had been investigated on sexual assault allegations.

An interview took place at the Child Advocacy Center in Winnsboro. The victim confirmed she had been touched by the defendant on her vagina with his finger. She confirmed the vaginal area by utilizing a picture of the female anatomy. She confirmed she was touched over her clothes and this occurred when she was in Nall’s office getting candy.

O’Grady met with the defendant and his attorney at the Wood County Sheriff’s Office. During the interview, Nall initially denied the allegations and stated the victim had never been in his lap.

O’Grady reported he asked Nall if he could have possibly grabbed her vaginal area with her sliding out of his lap and catching her, and he replied that would not have happened because the victim had never been in his lap. 

Later in the interview O’Grady said Nall began to say he would sometimes place children in his lap so they could see into the candy bowl on his desk.

O’Grady reported, “I advised the defendant…that I did not believe the victim was short enough to need his assistance. He was unable to provide a rebuttal pertaining to him initially stating she had never been on his lap to the fact he was helping her get candy.”

The fact that the other allegations in Mississippi were similar was mentioned as well. Nall began to defend his stance on the case until his attorney advised against it, and a short time later the interview ended.

The report said there is no evidence suggesting any reasoning the victim or her mother would make false allegations.

“Due to the evidence pertaining to the case thus far, it appears a reasonable and prudent person would conclude the allegations were, in fact, committed by the defendant,” O’Grady wrote.

Nall was booked into the Smith County jail and released on a $50,000 bond the same day.

In 2013 he was arrested  for sexual battery against a young child while pastor at Farmington Baptist Church in Corinth, Miss. and tried in 2014. That resulted in a mistrial when the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

He was indicted again in September 2014 but that case does not appear to have gone to trial.

In July 1999 Nall was investigated by the North Little Rock, Ark. police for sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl and was arrested on Oct. 12, 1999 for carnal abuse, third degree.

At the time Nall was serving as a U.S. Navy chaplain.

The church introduced a guest pastor on Sunday and indicated it was considering an interim pastor.