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Investigators opened the case back up in 2022 after receiving word from a former youth group member that Vander Meer used his position at New Song church to 'groom kids,' documents read, according to the New York Times.

Officials said he had been involved in an 'inappropriate sexual relationship' with an underage member of the youth ministry, and that he allegedly told the girl that they could be together if his wife was 'not alive,' the report stated.

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