A Bessemer City man was arrested for alleged sexual exploitation of a minor by Gaston County Police. Ausburn Jerry Bridges, 54, was charged with 20 counts of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor and 20 counts of third degree sexual exploitation of a minor.

He was going to visit his son, for hist 1st birthday. Instead, a 3 a.m. phone call sent him to the hospital. Instead the Gastonia died of an alleged.