A North Carolina pastor was arrested this week on charges that he sexually assaulted a young girl over a six year period.

According to WBTV, the girl told Iredell County Sheriff’s Office investigators that 70-year-old Pastor Jerry Dean Wallace sexually assaulted her multiple times from 2008 through 2014. Dean is pastor at Light in the Darkness church in Union Grove.

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Witnesses to the assault in another county were also located and interviewed.

Investigators said that Wallace “declined to make a statement.” He was arrested on Tuesday, and was being held at the Iredell County Detention Center on $150,000 secured bond.

Detective Sgt. Brian Fink of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit said that additional charges could be forthcoming.