 On Monday afternoon, Bobby J. Blackburn, who Prestonsburg police officers say used his cell phone to text underage females to try to get them to engage in sexual activities, appeared in Floyd District Court. Prestonsburg police say on Thursday, May 24th, 26-year-old Bobby J. Blackburn, pastor of Elevate Church in Prestonsburg, sent sexually explicit texts to a 17-year-old female in the attempt to get her to engage in a sexual act with himself and another juvenile. The texts were reported to the police before anything physical happened, which officers say would have resulted in a rape charge. In order to meet the qualification of rape 3rd, you have to be in a position of authority, which Blackburn is the manager of G. of Orleans and Prestonsburg. She was an employee of G. of Orleans and Prestonsburg at the time of the offense. As a matter of fact, the conversations began as a professional conversation about things going on at work. Sergeant Shurtliffe told the court a 3rd juvenile went to the police station the next day stating that she was the one who sent the texts in question, but she soon recanted. She became emotional and challenged her statement and stated that she was coerced by Blackburn and was followed by the Prestonsburg police department to make that statement on his behalf. I returned to the camera system that we have at the police department and did verify that Blackburn followed her to Prestonsburg police department and has been able to see him pulling in the department in the parking lot immediately behind this juvenile. I was also able to obtain text messages from juvenile number two during an on-record interview, which Blackburn engaged in a conversation with her at the same period of time that proves that Blackburn had the phone during the same period of time that the explicit text messages were sent. However, Blackburn's defense attorney Steve Owens says he can prove that Blackburn did not have his phone during that time. Well, the phone was being used by people who were working for him at a cell and shaved ice to make credit card transactions and I have those credit card transactions and I'm going to supply those to the police and I have statements from those people that those credit card transactions were made by them using that phone. Judge Eric Hall bound the case over to the grand jury and ordered that Blackburn remain on home incarceration.