Epsicopal Minister Sentenced for Sexual Assault

Jim Carlton Wooldridge, former minister of St. George's Episcopal Church, in Gatesville Texas and St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Lampasas Texas was sentenced today to three years in prison for sexual assault of a young boy.

Methodist Minister Indicted for Theft of $300,000

Ray Robinson, former minister of the Lane Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Ohio was indicted today for theft of about $300,000 from the church.

Robinson, 56, secretly mortgaged the church's parsonage, used the building as collateral to obtain illegal loans and laundered the money through many bank accounts, Gutierrez said.

The minister also drained the church's Benevolent Fund earmarked for the poor, stole the identities of church members to obtain illegal credit cards, and pocketed a $5,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation for a computer training program, Gutierrez said.

Robinson just got out of federal prison in December after serving 10 months for a real estate scam in Mississippi.

Convicted Church Organist Arranged Victim's Murder

Robert Nelson, the organist for St. James Episcopal Church in Derby Connecticut was convicted and sentenced in 2006 for multiple sex crimes against three young girls at the church. However, earlier this month he had 7 more years added onto his sentence. From behind bars he tried to have one of his earlier victims murdered.

Episcopal Attorney Sentenced for Destroying Evidence

Episcopal Attorney Philip Russell was sentenced to one year probation with 6 months confined to his home with electronic monitoring for destroying evidence at his church regarding child pornography found on a computer of the music director, Robert Tate.