An Oconee County preacher is facing child sex crime charges. The Sheriff's Office says 57 year old, William Franklin Galbreath of Salem was arrested today on a dozen counts of criminal sexual conduct, multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and assault charges.
The Sheriff's Office was tipped off by investigators from Tennessee who working a case in which Galbreath reportedly sexually assaulted a minor.
Galbreath allegedly starting sexually assaulting a victim in 2019 while she was a child and did so in her teenage years from 2022 until this year.
Later, a 2nd victim also a teenager was discovered later. Galbreath is the Pastor of Harvest Holiness Church in Salem.