George Gay, former principal of Mission Viejo Christian School, and founder of the Heritage Christian School in Mission Viejo, California knew of an ongoing sexual relationship between school staff member and son-in-law Armando Lucero and a 15 year old student, but did not report it to authorities.
"It's a privilege working with children," said Darrin Smith, executive pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. "Once you allow exploitation of one child, you don't get that right anymore."
Sicelo Dludlu, Pastor of the Church of God Ministries in Swaziland beat a 21 year old boy who admitted to stealing money from the pastor's house with sticks ultimately resulting in the boys death.
When he repented and converted to Christianity Pastor Dludlu confessed to numerous members of the community that he was guilty of adultery as he had slept with their wives and had thus begged for their forgiveness.
"I still cannot comprehend how he lost his cool towards my son, soon forgetting how I had forgiven him when he confessed that he had also committed adultery with my wife," said Maseko. He added: "I would have expected him to discipline my son and not kill because I thought the nature of our relationship was based on forgiveness."
Christopher Decaire, Youth Pastor at the East Tucson Baptist Church in Arizona was arrested Friday and charged with nine felonies.Decaire is charged with two counts molestation of a child, four counts sexual conduct of a minor, two counts sexual abuse and one count sexual abuse of a child because police say the abuse may have gone on for a year.
Thanks to ExChristian.net for bringing this story to our attention.
Archbishop Earl Paulk, of the suburban Atlanta Megachurch "Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church" has until Wednesday to turn himself in to authorities.
The charge stems from a civil lawsuit filed against him by a former church employee who said Paulk forced her into a sexual affair, by telling her it was her path to salvation.
Rev. Darrell Gilyard, pastor of the Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida surrendered to police on Monday and was charged with sending sexually explicit text messages to a teenage girl.
Pastor George Harvey has been an outspoken critic of Gilyard since he came to Jacksonville 14 years ago after another church-related sex scandal in Texas. Harvey said he is appalled by the allegations.
After the mother of the 14-year-old went to the Sheriff's Office, she was asked why she waited a month to lodge her complaint with police. She said she'd been told the church was going to handle the matter, the report said.
Brian White of Humble, Texas pleaded innocent on Monday for beating a stranger to death with a rock in New Jersey.
Christian apologists will be quick to point out the mental health issues as the reason for the attack and that Brian's Christian beliefs have nothing to do with it. I ask however, where was god's moral guidance that Christians claim to own when this Christian was picking up the rock?White is accused of murdering a stranger, Michail Makarenko, 75, of Virginia by pummeling him with a rock after the victim refused to buy a religious CD from him. The incident took place at the James Fenimore Cooper Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike in Mount Laurel in March.
State police have said White, a disc jockey, appears to have mental health issues. The CD was a Christian recording.
Trista Sturdivant and Rachel Beaumont, students at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina made up a story about being assaulted in December to get out of taking exams.
Police said eventually, Sturdivant admitted she lied about the attack. Her roommate, Rachel Beaumont, also confessed to hitting Sturdivant with a lacrosse stick to make it appear that she had been assaulted.
Sturdivant is charged with filing a false police report. Beaumont is charge with giving false information. Both have been suspended from the lacrosse team.
Baptist Pastor Peter Torrence of Ramsgate, Kent, UK pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in jail for taking pictures up womens skirts. He was caught by one of his victims after she saw his camera flash go off and chased him.
Charles Thomas Hogland, pastor at Greggton Church of Christ in Longview, Texas admitted to fondling a 10 year old on six different occasions in the church parsonage, according to police records.
Doug Scott, former pastor of the now defunct River of Life Church in Colorado Springs was found guilty buy a jury on Friday for his part in directing church members to an illegal hedge fund, led by businessman and fellow Christian Alan Bird.
Bird's Christian connections gave investors faith. Investors said Scott and Bird's father- in-law, the former president of the Christian nonprofit Bethesda Ministries, eased any concerns they may have had.
Sidney B. Walker, Pastor at First Baptist Church in Farrell, Pennsylvania admitted on Tuesday to stealing $18,000 of church funds in March of 2006.When questioned, Rev. Walker told church officials he’d moved the money to another account, but by March 14, 2007, there was no record of any deposit on behalf of the church made at Sky Bank.
Richard Ali, a biology teacher at Cathedral High School, a Catholic prep school in Queens, New York admitted on Thursday to sexually assaulting five students.
Ali, who also was a soccer coach at the school, raped and molested the students, sometimes repeatedly, between April 2005 and January 2007 after school hours in his car near a Queens high school and at a movie theater, Brown's office said.
Nathaniel Alexander of Portsmouth Virginia was one of several people caught up in a check-kiting scheme. Olympic Medalists Steve Riddick and Marion Jones were also involved and are facing jail time.
Alexander, a Portsmouth businessman who was sharing office space with Riddick during the conspiracy, was found guilty of laundering two counterfeit checks for $1 million. He argued at trial that he thought the check was for the purchase of a business he had owned at the time. The jury didn’t believe him.
“The charges against Mr. Alexander are so out of character from his upbringing and involvement in the community,” Bishop James M. Whitaker, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Portsmouth where Alexander attends services, wrote in a letter to the judge.
Matthew S. Persichetti, graduate of Merrimack College who volunteered at a Mexican orphanage as part of a program organized by the college's Campus Ministry was charged on Wednesday of possession of child pornography. Merrimack College is a Catholic college in North Andover, Massachusetts,
During analysis of the computer, investigators also allegedly discovered a text document that is part of an ongoing investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement New England Field Office.
"The story describes in detail a sexual encounter that 'the author' experienced with an eight year-old orphan while volunteering at an orphanage in Mexico," ICE agent Eric LaForte said in court papers filed Wednesday.
Jason W. Stalnaker, former teacher at Capitol Baptist School in Dover, Deleware has been arrested and charged with 295 counts of sexual assault of a 15-year old student over a 15 month period from 2002 to 2003.
The sexual abuse allegedly happened at the school or during other school or church activities. Stalnaker has not been affliated with the school or the church for around five years.
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