WACO (June 17, 2009)--William Frank Brown, 45, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bellmead, was named in an eight-count indictment Wednesday stemming from a series of child sexual abuse incidents involving two girls that started four years ago in another state.

The indictment handed up by the McLennan County Grand Jury charges four counts of indecency with a child by contact and four counts of aggravated sexual assault.

Brown was arrested in April, police said, after one of the victims told a school counselor about the sexual abuse, which started when the girls were between 9 and 10 years of age.

Brown turned himself in after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest, police said.