EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. — A 37-year-old volunteer youth pastor has been charged in Clay County with multiple felonies after investigators say he engaged in an unlawful sexual relationship with a teenage member of his church’s youth group.
The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that Donald Aaron Axtell, of Excelsior Springs, is charged with statutory rape in the second degree, possession of child pornography, and furnishing pornographic material to a minor.
A judge issued a warrant for Axtell’s arrest and set bond at $100,000. He was being held at the Excelsior Springs Police Station and was booked into the Clay County Jail on Friday afternoon…