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(Las Vegas, NV-AP) -- A former Mormon missionary has been indicted on felony sex assault and lewdness charges involving two young girls at a Las Vegas church.
21-year-old John Missleldine is free today on 35-thousand dollars bail after the indictment was unsealed yesterday in Clark County District Court.
He's due for arraignment December 23rd on charges of sexual assault of a minor under 14, and two counts of lewdness with a child under 14.
Misseldine's from Little Rock, Arkansas.
He's accused of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl and fondling the girl's four-year-old sister while was babysitting them during services May third at a Mormon church in Las Vegas.
His lawyer says the case is weak -- and that's why prosecutors took it to a grand jury behind closed doors.
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