FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Southern Baptist official was indicted in Texas on charges related to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in 1997, when he was a 25-year-old seminary student in Fort Worth.

Mark Aderholt, now 47, was indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury Tuesday on a count of sexual assault of a child under 17 and three counts of indecency with a child.

Aderholt's accuser, Anne Marie Miller, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Wednesday that she hopes Aderholt "will see this as another opportunity to confess and admit what he did."

Aderholt was the associate executive director and chief strategist for the South Carolina Baptist Convention for a year and a half until resigning in June.

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