An elderly former Upstate pastor has taken an Alford Plea on child sex crime charges in Virginia. 88 year old, Albert Benjamin Wharton took a plea on charges of aggravated sexual battery with a victim under 13 and indecent acts with a child.
An Alford Plea is when someone acknowledges they would likely be convicted, but doesn’t admit to the crime. The charges stem from when Wharton was a pastor in Virginia between 1976 and 2002…