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A former youth ministry director has been indicted on charges of sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl he met at church.

Matthew Jonas Overstreet, 26, faces three counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child involving sexual contact. All are second-degree felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Overstreet has worked at several North Texas churches. Plano police say Overstreet met the girl in 2007, when he was a youth-group intern at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Plano.

After he left the church later that year, he started sending “sexual remarks” to the girl via Facebook and text message, according to documents.

The girl told police that Overstreet came to her house at 3 a.m. Dec. 19, 2009, and had sex with her in her bedroom. She was 15 at the time. Police arrested Overstreet last March. He is free on $15,000 bail.

Overstreet also spent two years as youth director at Cornerstone United Methodist Church in Garland. Before his arrest, he worked at Spring Valley United Methodist Church in Far North Dallas.