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Polk County pastor faces charges involving lewd battery on a minor and sex without HIV disclosure 18%
By Nancy Gay11%
8/4/2026, 4:29:57 AM
Topics: Crime, Law Enforcement
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.3% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 341 faulty-reasoning hits from 216 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25.7% and a BS Rank of 18% (25,256 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.
A Winter Haven pastor and hospice chaplain is behind bars after law enforcement arrested him on several charges involving minors and undisclosed health risks, according to officials.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is expected to hold a conference at 10 a.m.
Tuesday at the PCSO Sheriff's Operations Center in Winter Haven to detail the arrest of 42-year-old Timothy Chaneyfield.
Chaneyfield, 42, serves as a pastor at St.
James United American Free Will Baptist Church in Winter Haven.
He also informed detectives that he works as a chaplain for Compassionate Care Hospice of Lakeland.
Deputies arrested Chaneyfield on a wide array of charges, including three counts of lewd battery of a minor, three counts of interfering with custody of a minor, three counts of travelling to meet a minor, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device.
Additionally, authorities charged him with four counts of an HIV infected person having sex without informing their partner, possession of cannabis, and five counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Authorities have not yet released specific details regarding how investigators uncovered the alleged crimes or the timeline of the offenses.
Officials have also not disclosed whether there are additional potential victims linked to the case.
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