Former Rochester Pastor Faces Child Porn Charges in Missouri

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Investigators in Saint Charles County, Mo., say a raid of a Lutheran pastor's home turned up child pornography on his computer.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 36-year-old Matthew Luetke was charged last Wednesday with promoting child pornography as part of an undercover investigation that began in December. His cash-only bail was set at $100,000.

Luetke is a pastor at Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church in O'Fallon and previously worked at churches in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where he was a youth minister at Ascension Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rochester for almost 7-years before leaving last year.  The evangelical church in Missouri has its own daycare center, but police say they don't suspect Luetke had any improper contact with children there.