{"id":278984,"date":"2026-05-21T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:32:08","slug":"south-florida-pastor-of-baptist-church-facing-sexual-assault-charges-police-think-there-are-more-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278984\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida pastor of Baptist church facing sexual assault charges, police think there are more victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pastor of a North Miami Baptist church has been arrested on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sexual assault <\/a>charges.<\/p>\n<p>Elie Dorcius, 62, faces charges of molestation and indecent exposure. He went before a judge on Wednesday and was ordered held without bond.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives say the crimes happened decades ago. The victim is 33 years old now but was just 5 years old when the assaults began, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators fear there could be other victims and ask anyone with information to contact the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Documents list Dorcius as the pastor of Unity Baptist Church in North Miami. The church was locked up behind a gate on Wednesday, and no one was there. <\/p>\n<p>CBS Miami went to his North <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami<\/a> home, where no one answered the door, but renters in the front were surprised to learn of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Dorcius is currently in jail with no bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pastor of a North Miami Baptist church has been arrested on sexual assault charges. Elie Dorcius, 62,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59707,265,28,30,29,123,40968,12497,1311,807],"class_list":["post-278984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-baptist","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-assault","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}