Former Christian Aid Ministries worker Jeriah Mast of Millersburg, Ohio, was indicted Dec. 2 by a federal grand jury on four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors while he oversaw a school program for CAM.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice stated in a release that each count of the indictment is premised on his sexual abuse of four minors in Haiti in 2004, 2007 and 2011. The charges are based on a U.S. law that prohibits citizens from “traveling in foreign commerce and engaging in any illicit sexual conduct with another person.”

Mast was previously sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison for sexually abusing two boys in Holmes County, Ohio (MWR, Oct. 28, 2019). The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported at the time that Mast’s confession to abusing more than 30 boys in Haiti between 2003 and 2019 as a mission worker with CAM influenced the judge’s sentence to go beyond the five years recommended in a plea agreement. Mast was originally charged with abuse of five Ohio minors between 1999 and 2008.

ABC News reported Mast received an early judicial release in October after serving just under six years, according to Ohio’s inmate database. He was arrested on the federal charges on Nov. 5 but not formally indicted until Dec. 2.

CAM, a relief agency supported by conservative Anabaptists, placed two leaders on administrative leave in 2019 after it was revealed they knew of sexual abuse allegations concerning Mast as early as 2013.