Waco, TX. A central Texas pastor faces jail time, after admitting to
molesting a ten year old boy. John William Hayden was pastor of a church
near Waco. Yesterday, he struck a deal, pleading guilty to two counts of
indecency with a child. (KFDX, June 4, 2002)
PASTOR ADMITS TO MOLESTATION
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Dekalb, GA. A DeKalb County judge sentenced Pastor Troy Brown of the Greater
Anointed Tabernacle Worship Center to 70 years in prison on 25 counts of
child molestation. Prosecutors say Brown abused a 15-year-old boy who
attended his church. (May 30, 2002, WSB-TV)
Troy Brown sentenced to 70 years
DeKalb minister remains defiant after 70-year sentence in molestation case
Troy Brown sentenced on 25 counts DeKalb minister remains defiant
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ST. PETERSBURG, FL. A recently retired Lutheran pastor may no longer
minister in any capacity in the wake of allegations of inappropriate
behavior with female parishioners, his bishop said. About the same time the
Rev. Bruce Wilder left his 400-member congregation in March, multiple female
church members came forward with accusations, said Bishop Edward R. Benoway
of the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
An allegation concerning a girl was passed on the to St. Petersburg Police
Department which is investigating, Benoway said Friday. (Naples Daily News,
May 26, 2002)
Retired Lutheran pastor accused of inappropriate behavior
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Columbus, GA. After four days of testimony and lawyers' arguments, the child
molestation case against the Rev. Wilmer D. Williams will remain without a
verdict through the Memorial Day weekend, Muscogee Superior Court Judge
Robert Johnston decided Friday. (May 25, 2002, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
Report in Cincinnatti Enquirer
Minister on trial
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Arraignment for The Rev. Gary Carsonhull, a Methodist minister charged with
18 felony counts of child molestation, will be at 1:30 p.m. today in Long
Beach Dept. D, the District Attorney's office announced. The 57-year-old
minister is charged in case No. NA052740. (Long Beach, CA. May 24, 2002)
Methodist Minister Charged with criminal child molestation
Methodist Minister Charged with 18 counts
Long Beach Report
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COURT OF APPEALS MORROW COUNTY, OHIO upheld district court conviction of
youth minister Timothy L. Cook of Mt. Gilead Church of Christ as a "sexual
predator." (Court opinion, May 16, 2002)
Court Opinion
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England. Brother Stair Arrested: Criminal Sexual Conduct & Breech Of Trust.
Mr. Stair's wife Teresa claims "Brother" Stair admits to having sex with
several "women" at the community. The claims and charges revolve around the
fact that the women in question were underage, which means they were under
the age of eighteen when Ralph Stair allegedly had sex with them. "Brother"
Stair is sixty-nine. (May 16, 2002 )
Youth Paster charged
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Eatonton, GA. The child molestation case against Nuwaubian leader escalated
Monday in state and federal court. In Eatonton, a Putnam County grand jury
issued a 116-count indictment of the 56-year-old leader of the United
Nuwaubian Nation of Moors (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution 05-14-2002)
Cult Leader Ignored His Own Rules
FBI: Kids from 4 to 18 abused in sect
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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) -- A woman said she and her husband have been
excommunicated from the Jehovah's Witnesses after speaking out against the
church's handling of their daughter's allegations of sex abuse by another
member. (May 11, 2002, AP)
Jehovah's Witnesses expel parents of alleged abuse victim
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/11/jehovahs.witnesses.ap/index.html
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Portland, OR. A 77-year old practicing minister at New Jeruselum Pentacostal
Church in Cornelius, is charged with sodomizing and sexually abusing young
members of his congregation in 2001 in the Gaston area. (KGW TV, May 9,
2002)
Local Minister Arrested for Sex Abuse
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RAPID CITY, SD. The Rev. James A. Forsythe, a Protestant minister in South
Dakota, has not registered as a sex offender as required by law. Forsythe,
47, pleaded guilty in 1989 to attempted indecent liberties with a child. A
Johnson County district judge said Forsythe was a pedophile and ordered him
to have no contact with teen-age boys - a restriction the judge later
lifted. SForsythe, who told The Kansas City Star on Friday that he did not
know he needed to register in South Dakota, pleaded guilty Dec. 8, 1989, to
attempting indecent liberties with a child. Since January 2000, Forsythe has
been minister of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Black Hills in
Rapid City, S.D. The church is part of a growing denomination that serves
predominantly gay and lesbian worshippers. Forsythe said he had never told
the whole congregation of his past. (5/5/2002, AP)
Protestant Minister unregistered as sex offender in South Dakota
Protestant Minister unregistered as sex offender in South Dakota
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LAKESTATION, Ind.- William A. Beith, 28, was charged Thursday with coercing
and enticing a minor into sexual acts and transporting a minor across state
lines for sexual purposes in connection with the disappearance of Gabrielle
Grace Marshall. (May 4, 2002; The Associated Press)
FBI searching for a former Baptist school principal who sexually abused an
11-year-old girl.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/principal010504.html
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Syracuse, NY. David Gardiner, the Pastor of Liverpool Baptist Church, was
arraigned on sexual abuse charges on Wednesday. Gardiner, 43, eluded a
police swat team and dozens of sheriff's deputies for more than eight hours
from around 5:00 pm Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Sheriff Kevin
Walsh says Gardiner is accused of having sexual contact with a girl who is
under age 11. Court documents show the allegations do not involve anyone
outside the Gardiner home. According to Sheriff Walsh, the investigation
began when Gardiner's wife Deborah contacted his department. Gardiner also
taught Bible study and economics classes at the Baldwinsville Christian
Academy; he has been fired from the job in the wake of the sex abuse
allegations. (May 1, 2002, WTVH news)
Minister flees law after sex abuse charges
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0501story115953_news.shtml
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A Christian pastor in Indonesia was sentenced to four years imprisonment for
sexually abusing seven refugee children under his care, officials said
Tuesday. Saderah Sudiro, a Protestant clergyman with the Foundation For the
Village Bible Society, was found guilty Monday of molesting refugee children
ages 14 and 15 in his house in Solo in Central Java, said prosecutor Ika Ria
Wati. "For more than a year he abused the minors who sought refuge in his
foundation," said Wati. (Associated Press, April 30, 2002)
pastor gets four years for molesting refugee children
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JACKSONVILLE, FL. A businessman and deacon of First Baptist Church already
accused of molesting a minor was arrested Thursday on charges he molested
two other youths. Stephen Lee Edmonds, 44, was charged with five counts of
lewd and lascivious assault, said David Sembach, Jacksonville police
assistant chief of detectives. The victims were 14 and 15 years old,
authorities said. He had been free on $50,000 bond following an arrest April
15, when he was charged with molesting a 16-year-old and sending him
Internet messages discussing sexual practices. The 16-year-old alleged that
Edmonds improperly touched him twice in 2000. (Naples Daily News, April 26,
2002)
Former Jacksonville deacon facing multiple molestation charges
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Encinitas, CA. Michael Skoor, 55, and a former pastor at Calvary Lutheran
Church in Solana Beach, is accused of molesting the boy and his younger
brother, both of whom are elementary school age. He has pleaded not guilty
to 30 counts, including committing a lewd act on a child, showing
pornography to a minor and burglary. He remains jailed on $2 million bail
pending a July 8 trial date. Skoor faces a possible 40 years to life
sentence in prison if convicted on all counts. (04/23/2002, The North County
Times)
Former pastor to stand trial on molest charges
(http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020124/52517.html)
Former Paster jailed for committing a lewd act on a child
(http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020423/52547.html)
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RIVERSIDE, NY. Ernest Lorch, the director of the Riverside Church youth
basketball program, has voluntarily stepped down after the reports of child
sexual abuse, the church announced Tuesday. (April 20, 2002), AP.
Report: Sex Scandal Brewing at Riverside Church
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Anaheim, CA. Anaheim pastor admitted Monday he fondled two teen-age girls 18
years ago while working as a part-time counselor at a Colorado church a
decade before he was assigned to an Orange County church. "I was acting like
an irresponsible teen-ager. There's no excuse for what I did," the Rev. Greg
Tucker of Anaheim First Church of the Nazarene told The Orange County
Register. The church settled lawsuits by two women, who said Tucker, then
22, molested them when they were 16. A Colorado jury sided with the women in
a civil trial, ordering Tucker to pay the two $70,000. Tucker said he never
told church leaders about the indiscretions before his ordination in
Southern California seven years ago. In Colorado, sexual relations with a
teen-ager were not considered criminal then, which led the women to sue for
civil damages. The former youth pastor is now a senior pastor in a Nazarene
Church in Anaheim, CA. The Nazarene General Superintendent's remarks about
the case were very telling, i.e. "This happened a long time ago. . .the man
has 'grown' since then. . . isn't the Christian faith all about forgiveness.
.. ."(North County Times, April 17, 2002)
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Payne County, OK. Former youth minister of River of Life Church, Rex Jason
Sumner, pleaded guilty in Payne County District Court on Friday to four
counts of oral sodomy, four counts of lewd molestation, one count of second-
degree rape and one count of indecent proposal to a child. (April 16, 2002,
The Daily O'Collegian, Oklahoma Sstate Univ.)
Former Youth Minister pleads Guilty
Ex-youth leader admits abuse
Sumner please guilty
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A former Burlington pastor charged with sex crimes has left his Danville,
Va., church after reportedly admitting to deacons there that he acted
inappropriately with a child. Many members of the Danville church pastored
by the Rev. James Preston Tyndall were shocked Sunday to learn that he had
been charged with six felony sex crimes Thursday and had resigned Friday
evening. "I would say our people were shocked. But some of them had heard
about his arrest on TV prior to the Sunday service," Bruce Hutcheson,
chairman of the deacon board at Stokesland Baptist Church, said Monday of
Tyndall's departure. Hutcheson and other deacons who met with Tyndall after
his release from the Alamance County Jail have said that he admitted to them
that he engaged in inappropriate conduct with the child. Burlington
authorities said the girl, now 14, was 8 and 9 years old when the alleged
offenses occurred in Burlington. (4/10/2002, Alamance County Times-News)
Pastor's arrest shocks church
http://www.thetimesnews.com/2000/00-04/00-04-11/news-1.html
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Newbury, NH. Joseph A. "Pastor Joe" Rinaldi, 60, is charged with five counts
of lewd/lascivious conduct with a child. He faces up to 25 years in prison
if convicted. The charges cover a time period from 1993 to 1998 and involve
three boys whose ages ranged from 10 to 15 at the time of the alleged abuse.
An affidavit refers to other alleged victims, one as old as 19. Rinaldi met
the boys through the Newbury Bible Church, where he was pastor, and/or the
Newbury Christian School, where he was principal. (The Caledonian-Record
News, April 9, 2002)
Newbury Pastor Pleads Innocent To Molestation
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WEBSTER COUNTY, IL. Investigators with the Sheriff's Department are
searching for a Baptist minister charged with five counts of statutory rape.
Officials say the Rev. Steven Rear, 40, pastor of Westport Baptist Church in
Springfield, has been on the run since the charges were filed against him on
Monday. Rear is charged with raping a girl under 14 years old. According to
court documents, the abuse allegedly occurred throughout the 1990s. The
victim, now 20, said Rear had sexual intercourse with her "about every other
day" when she was between the ages of 13 and 16. Members of Westport
Baptist, where Rear has preached for the past 10 years, refuse to believe
the charges. "The church is behind our pastor all the way," said deacon
Billy Elliott of the 75-member congregation. (The Springfield News-Leader,
March 21, 2002)
Pastor of Springfield's Westport Baptist Church accused of sex with girl
under age 14.
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MARSHALL. TX. (AP) - A civil lawsuit claims a former Lutheran minister
molested eight boys over several years and that his actions should have been
halted by church leaders. The lawsuit, filed Feb. 12 in state district
court, names former Evangelical Lutheran minister Gerald Patrick Thomas Jr.,
the Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and several other
church-related organizations as defendants. Thomas, who resigned from the
denomination's clergy roster about a year ago, could not be reached for
comment Tuesday. A spokesman for the ELCA said the church will present its
case in court, not in the media. (AP, March 20, 2002)
Lutheran church officials, ex-pastor named in suit
(http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/032002/tex_insuit.shtml)
Abuse by Clergy Is Not Just a Catholic Problem
(http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/national/13LUTH.html)
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SPRINGFIELD, TN. A former youth minister was sentenced to eight years in
prison yesterday after he pleaded no contest to charges that he raped one of
his congregation's 13-year-old boys. Before his arrest, Spain had worked two
years as a youth pastor at the First Assembly of God Church.
(Tennessean.com, March 2, 2002)
Former youth minister sentenced in boy's rape
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NEW ORLEANS, LA (CHARISMA) -- The music minister at a large New Orleans
church has been charged with intentionally exposing a teen-age boy to the
AIDS virus. Phillip Britton--music minister at Greater St. Stephen Full
Gospel Baptist Church, led by Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship founder
Bishop Paul Morton--denied the charge brought last week, "The Times-
Picayune" said. Britton, 38, was charged earlier with having sex with an
underage male. A police report said that Britton met the boy from another
church through choir activities, and the two had sex more than 100 times in
a year, the newspaper said. (Maranatha Christian Journal, Feb. 23, 2002)
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Robert Leroy Tolle, 65, minister, was indicted by an Orange County grand
jury on charges of raping his daughter and stepdaughter between 1965 and
1970. A trial date is pending. Police ignored repeated admonitions over a
period of 10 years by sisters to bring charges. Tolle has been convicted of
lewd-behavior charges involving adult women in Utah. (NewsChief, February
19, 2002)
Tolle Indicted
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CASSOPOLIS, MI. - A former Cass County minister was sentenced Friday to at
least 10 year in prison for molesting a child. John Charles Yeager, 54,
pleaded no contest to a sexual assault charge. Yeager is already serving an
8-20-year term in a case involving another sex offense. The sentences will
run concurrently. In 1998, he was convicted of molesting a teenager who knew
one of his daughters. Yeager was once a pastor at First Congregational
Church in Constantine. (Feb. 7, 2002; WWMT TV) Convicted pastor sentenced
again
WWMT report
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The former minister of a southeast Kansas Baptist Church has been charged
with molesting a teen-age girl. 37-YEAR-OLD KYLE GUENTHER of Iola was
charged Wednesday in Allen County with five counts of aggravated indecent
liberties with a child, and four counts of aggravated sodomy. County
Attorney Nanette Kemmerly-Weber says the charges stem from 15 alleged
incidents between Guenther and the girl. The girl was 14 in November 1999
when the alleged assaults began. (MSNBC.com, Jan. 31, 2002)
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RAYMOND, NH. - A 20-year-old man who alleges a Raymond youth pastor molested
him when he was 14 has told authorities that the church member often came to
his house to punish him with a wooden cutting board and paddle, a police
affidavit said.
Cranford was hired as a full-time youth pastor in February 2001. Despite
being a registered sex offender, Cranford was hired as an associate youth
pastor and the music minister at the New Life Assembly of God church.
According to the affidavit, Cranford allegedly got on top of the boy, pinned
him down, and performed a sexual act. Cranford was convicted of sexually
assaulting a child while serving as an associate pastor at a church in
Groton, Mass., police said. (Jan. 26, 2002; The New Hampshiore Union Leader)
Raymond man alleges he was molested as a teen
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=8385
Victim's emotional scars often last a lifetime
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=8405
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OTHELLO, WA. -- A lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the Othello Spanish
Jehovah's Witnesses congregation and its New York governing body, alleging
they covered up the sexual abuse of a child. (1/23/2002, Tri-City Herald)
Lawsuit alleges coverup by Jehovah's Witnesses
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RUSSELLVILLE, AL. A minister already charged in two rapes of young girls has
been accused in another sexual abuse case involving one of the rape victims
at age 4. Russellville Police Lt. William Nale said the additional first-
degree sexual abuse warrant was issued Thursday against John L. "Bill"
Anderson, 61, of Carbon Hill. Anderson already faces first-degree sexual
abuse charges in Russellville as well as first-degree rape charges in
Texarkana, Ark. He's being held in the Franklin County Jail on $150,000
bail. The rape victims were ages 9 and 7. (Montgomery Advertiser, Jan. 19,
2002)
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Republic, KS. The pastor of a Republic church faces three to 10 years in
prison in Kansas on six sexual abuse charges that date back to 1979. Russell
Winkler, pastor at Republic's First Christian Church for the past eight
years, pleaded no contest to the charges Friday in an Atchison, Kan.,
courthouse. The judge found him guilty of six counts of aggravated
enticement of a child. The abuse occurred between 1979 and 1981 while
Winkler was associate pastor and youth director of the First Christian
Church in Atchison. The victims were all boys, ages 12-13. (The Springfield
News-Leader, Jan. 1, 2002)
Minister pleads no contest to sexual abuse charges that date back to 1979
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CROWLEY Michael James, 58 Hobart psychologist and former head of Anglican
Church's independent inquiry into child sex abuse. Appears in Hobart
Magistrates Court charged with maintaining sexual relationship with minor
between January 1973 and February 1976. Offences allegedly occurred at Fern
Tree, Pontville and Hobart when victim aged 13 to 16. Court hears Crowley,
of Howden, appointed by Anglican Church in 1997 to examine allegations of
child sex abuse levelled against some clergy members and church officials.
Court told Crowley co-authored report Not The Way of Christ in 1998 which
contained 31 recommendations on how sex abuse allegations could be handled
by church. (Tasmania, Australia, 2002).
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McAULEY Canon Ross Leslie Stewart Brisbane senior Anglican priest, St John's
Cathedral precentor, choirmaster and Church Sexual Abuse Committee member.
AUS Governor-General and former Brisbane Anglican archbishop Peter
HOLLINGWORTH comes under fire after appointing McAuley to Church Sexual
Abuse Committee while Brisbane archbishop despite being aware of allegations
that McAuley sexually abused 2 males. One victim, choirboy aged 15, was
allegedly assaulted in 1975 at Brookfield, Brisbane. In 1995, Hollingworth
appoints McAuley to Sexual Abuse Committee despite protests from first
victim. In 1997, Sexual Abuse Committee warns Hollingworth that McAuley
should not be left in charge of young members of choir. In 1999, McAuley
leaves Anglican Church 18 months after making inappropriate sexual advance
to male victim, aged 24, with whom he had "tangled relationship". Anglican
sources describe McAuley as sexual predator. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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BRAZIER Reverend Peter William, 56 Kingston-Robe Anglican priest. Receives 2
year and 6 month jail sentence in Mt Gambier District Court after pleading
guilty to 7 sex charges, including 6 counts of indecent assault and 1 of
unlawful sexual intercourse, against boy, aged 15, in 2001 while priest at
Kingston-Robe parish, southeast of Adelaide. Court hears Brazier, of
Parafield Gardens, in Adelaide's north, abused position by giving boy
alcohol, cash and showing him blue movie. In 1994, Brazier received 2 year
suspended jail term after pleading guilty to 3 charges of indecently
assaulting boy, aged 16, while priest at Tailem Bend-Meningie parish,
southeast of Adelaide. Church in 2002 criticised for shifting priest with
child sex conviction to another parish and recommendation made that in
future all priests and lay workers in SA undergo police checks before being
employed by church. (South Australia, Australia, Australia, 2002).
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ALEXANDER Trevor John, 40 Melbourne Wesley College singing teacher. Receives
4 year and 6 month jail sentence in Melbourne County Court after being
convicted on 10 charges of indecent assault, including sexual penetration,
against schoolgirl, aged 14, between 1996 and 1997 while teacher at Wesley
College Glen Waverley campus, in Melbourne's southeast. Court hears
Alexander, of Ashwood, seduced victim at his East Brighton home after
suggesting it was better for victim to lose virginity with experienced older
man. Court told Alexander abused victim during threesome involving wife
Elspeth McKENZIE who also taught at Wesley. Both Alexander and McKenzie
classified by judge as serious sexual offenders. (Victoria, Australia,
2002).
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DOBBS Geoffrey Robert, 48 QLD Sunday school teacher, church youth leader and
"highly regarded" church member. Pleads guilty in QLD District Court to 116
charges, including indecent dealing and recording indecent visual images,
involving 62 girls, aged 1 to 15, between 1972 and 1999. QLD Attorney-
General labels Dobbs state's worst pedophile. Left QLD in 1998 for VIC where
he was arrested in Melbourne in 1999 after leaving video camera containing
pornographic footage for repairs at video shop. In 2000, Dobbs receives 2
year and 6 month jail sentence in Melbourne County Court after pleading
guilty to 8 sex charges, including 5 counts of performing indecent act, 1 of
committing unlawful sexual intercourse, 1 of making child pornography and 1
of possessing child pornography, involving children as young as 6 months.
Police allege Dobbs committed more than 300 sex offences against 100s of
children over 30 year period. Court hears during 1999 raid of offender's
home, police found 177 video tapes containi ng 500 hours of recordings of
Dobbs' abuse of juvenile girls. Court told Dobbs "true predator" who preyed
on children he met at Sunday schools or youth camps. (Queensland, Australia,
2002).
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DUNNE James Paul, 46 Melbourne Seventh Day Adventist primary school teacher.
Receives maximum 7 year and 2 month jail sentence in Melbourne County Court
after pleading guilty to 30 counts of indecent assault and 1 of sexual
penetration against boy, aged 11 to 14, over 3 year period between 1984 and
1987 while teacher at Nunawading Seventh Day Adventist primary school, in
Melbourne's east, where abuse occurred. Court hears Dunne, of Lilydale, used
his religion to control boy and often prayed with him after abusing him
"probably hundreds of times". Report reveals church tried to buy victim's
silence with bribe of $125,000.(Victoria, Australia, 2002).
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ELLIOTT Reverend John Litton, 69 Brisbane Anglican priest, rector and former
Church of England Boys Society (CEBS) chief commissioner. Receives maximum 7
year and 6 month jail sentence in Brisbane District Court after pleading
guilty to 28 sex charges, including 10 counts of sodomy and 18 of indecent
dealing, involving 5 boys, aged 10 to 13, in early 1970s at Wide Bay, QLD.
Court hears Elliott, who set up Wide Bay Anglican youth group, encouraged
"corrupting" behaviour including skinny-dipping and playing strip poker and
that offences occurred at local church and in priest's own bed.
Investigations reveal Elliott ordained in 1986, after offences occurred, and
ministered at Bundaberg, Nanango and Dalby parishes. AUS Governor-General
and former Brisbane Anglican archbishop Peter HOLLINGWORTH comes under fire
after reports reveal he appointed Elliott rector of Nanango in 1990 and
Dalby in 1991 while archbishop between 1989 and 1991. (Queensland,
Australia, 2002).
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ELLMORE Reverend Robert, 64 Hunter Valley Anglican priest and Justice of
Peace. Receives 11 year jail sentence in Sydney District Court after being
convicted on 6 charges of indecently assaulting 3 girls, aged 8 to 12,
between 1981 and 1984 at Cumnock and West Wyalong, in central eastern NSW,
and again in 2001 in Sydney's south. In 1999, Ellmore received 12 month jail
sentence in Liverpool District Court after pleading guilty to indecently
assaulting 2 sisters, aged 6 and 8, and another girl, aged 7, in 1976 while
training for priesthood at Newcastle college, northeastern NSW. Court hears
Ellmore, who was ordained in 1978, assaulted sisters in Hunter Valley and
molested 7 year old in vestry of All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Bathurst. In
1998, Ellmore accused of abusing twin girls, aged 7, at Regents Park, in
Sydney's south-west. Charges later dropped. In 1991, Ellmore received 5 year
good behaviour bond and $5000 fine for molesting own granddaughter, aged 5,
on weekend trip to Mudgee, central eas tern NSW. In 1984, Ellmore accused of
sexually abusing girl, aged 8, after confirmation class in central NSW
parish residence. In 1967 Ellmore received fine for indecent exposure in
park at Blues Point, Sydney. In 1957, Ellmore received 1 month jail sentence
for aggravated assault of girl, aged 10, at Toowoomba, QLD. 2002 reports
reveal Ellmore still wore dog collar at time of arrest for 2001 offence and
that he was first Anglican priest to be defrocked and stripped of holy
office in living memory. (New South Wales, Australia, 2002).
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FLORIS Adrian Cornelius, 56 Melbourne Harvest Christian Church property
manager and pastor's husband. Receives 2 year and 11 month jail sentence in
VIC County Court after pleading guilty to 8 child sex charges, including
sexual penetration and indecent assault, against male foster child, aged 13,
in 1998 while property manager of Harvest Christian Church, Dingley, in
Melbourne's south. Court hears Floris, of Mornington, assaulted boy in spa
on Christmas Day and later told him abuse was "our little secret". In 1994,
Floris received $2000 fine after pleading guilty to assaulting teenage girl.
2002 report describes Floris as "God-fearing". (Victoria, Australia, 2002).
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KITCHINGHAM Reverend Allan, 69 Hunter Valley Anglican priest. Receives 2
year and 9 month jail sentence after pleading guilty in Newcastle District
Court to 5 counts of indecent assault against boy, aged 13, in 1975 at North
Coast Children's Home, Lismore. Victim, who described ruling as "joke",
claims priest assaulted him "several times a week for a year" and that
church officials put him on bus to Kings Cross after complaints made. (New
South Wales, Australia, 2002).
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HALN Reverend Young Key, 47 Gold Coast Presbyterian minister. Receives 8
year jail sentence after being found guilty in Brisbane District Court of
rape, digital rape and indecent dealing with girl, aged 14, in 2000 at
Nerang, south of Brisbane. Court hears Haln, who ran farm where visiting
Korean Christians could work, seduced girl after offering to teach her
English. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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HAWKINS Reverend Garth Anglican priest and former Church of England Boys
Society (CEBS) chief commissioner. Found guilty by Anglican Church tribunal
of child sex offences. (Tasmania, Australia, 2002).
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HAZELDINE Phillip, 55 Gippsland former Anglican school teacher. Receives 18
month jail sentence in Melbourne Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to
sexually assaulting 5 school students between 1977 and 1981 while teacher at
Gippsland Grammar, Sale. Court hears Hazeldine, of Buninyong, west of
Melbourne, often touch young boys when he was alone in their company and
that victims were students in grades 3 to 6. (Victoria, Australia, 2002).
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HOLLINGWORTH Dr Peter John, 67 AUS Governor-General (2001+), former Brisbane
Anglican archbishop (1989-2001), 1992 Australian of Year, Kids First
Foundation member and patron of Plan Australia, Barnardo's, Open Plan and
National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, aka Father
Hollywood. Sacked from aforementioned child group committees, banned by
Australian teacher's union from visiting public schools, and pressured
publicly and politically to resign as GG, "Australia's highest office", over
his handling of at least 6 separate sex abuse cases while archbishop of
Brisbane Anglican Church. Allegations include Hollingworth, of Yarralumla,
Canberra: 1: appointed convicted QLD pedophile priest Reverend John ELLIOTT
as rector of 2 Brisbane parishes; 2: failed to act on child sex abuse
allegations against Toowoomba Anglican preparatory school boarding master,
Kevin GUY; 3: authorised secret cash settlements to hush up sex abuse
evidence against Brisbane Anglican school counsellor, Kevi n LYNCH; 4:
appointed Brisbane senior priest Canon Ross McAULEY, himself the subject of
abuse allegations, to QLD Church Sexual Abuse Committee; 5: failed to act on
child sex abuse allegations against former Rockhampton Anglican bishop,
Donald SHEARMAN; 6: failed to act on child sex abuse allegations against
Churchie East Brisbane Anglican Grammar school gymnastics coach, William
WHITELOCK. (For other accused or convicted Churchie offenders, see Reverend
Robert SHARWOOD.) Hollingworth, who earns $310,000 pa as GG, criticised for
being "unlike Jesus ... on side of lawyers and insurers instead of on side
of victims". Hollingworth also slammed for implying on national television
that schoolgirl victim, aged 14, seduced priest and not other way around.
Report notes one of Hollingworth's most openly supportive senior Anglican
figures, Bishop George BROWNING, was embroiled in controversy over sexual
misconduct with parishioner. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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HOOPMAN Pastor David Bertrand, 73 Toowoomba Lutheran pastor, student
counsellor and school chaplain. Appears in Brisbane District Court on 6
charges of indecent dealing with girl, aged under 16, while student
counsellor and school chaplain at Concordia Memorial College between 1979
and 1981. Court hears Hoopman assaulted victim in school library and other
places and once told girl it was best if no one knew about it "except God,
him and her". (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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JACKSON George Arthur, 65 Ipswich Uniting Church elder and Sunday school
teacher. Receives 4 year suspended jail sentence in Ipswich District Court
after pleading guilty to 14 charges of indecent dealing against girl, aged
8, over 8 year period between 1979 and 1987. Court hears defendant had been
victim's Sunday school teacher and molestation had progressed from touching
to showing child pornographic movies and sexual contact. (Queensland,
Australia, 2002).
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NAME SUPPRESSED by court order, Brisbane Anglican school teacher and class
master. Appears in Brisbane Magistrates Court on 5 charges of indecent
treatment involving 3 boys, aged 11 to 13, between 1951 and 1963 while
teacher at Churchie Anglican Grammar school, East Brisbane. Accused
allegedly "taught" several students how to masturbate in early 1950s while
he was their class master. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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NAME SUPPRESSED by court order, Reverend TAS Anglican priest. Police charge
anglican priest with pedophilia. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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NAME SUPPRESSED by court order, Brisbane Anglican school teacher. Appears in
Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with 31 child sex offences, including 24
counts of indecent treatment, 2 of sodomy, 2 of attempted sodomy, 2 of
allowing sodomy to be performed on him and 1 of indecent assault, involving
9 boys, aged under 14, in 1940s and 1950s. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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RIDDLE Gary John, Geelong Baptist churchgoer, youth leader and primary
school teacher. Receives maximum 5 year jail sentence in VIC Appeals Court
after pleading guilty to 14 sex offences, including indecent assaults, gross
indecency and sexual penetration, against 9 girls, aged 10 to 16, between
1971 and 1989 at Geelong, Hawthorn and Port Campbell. Court hears Riddle, of
Bell Post Hill, Geelong, continued offending despite church pastor
confronting him about behaviour in 1983. Originally charged with 52 offences
against 11 victims. (Victoria, Australia, 2002).
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SAPSFORD Reverend Alan, Wangaratta Anglican priest and archdeacon. Ordered
to appear in Seymour Magistrates Court charged with gross indecency and
indecent assault against altar boy, aged 13 to 16, over 3 year period
"several decades ago". Report reveals Reverend Sapsford, of Avenel, who
ceased holding Anglican church license in 1996, spent 30 years in Wangaratta
church diocese and was archdeacon (one rung below bishop) from 1979 to 1996.
(Victoria, Australia, 2002).
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SHARWOOD Reverend Robert Francis Brisbane Anglican priest and school
chaplain. Is sacked as chaplain of exclusive Churchie Anglican Grammar
school, East Brisbane, in February 2002 after allegations surface that he
repeatedly molested young male between 1974 and 1976 while serving at
Brisbane Anglican Church. Police contacted in January 2002 after victim
learns Sharwood still working with children. (Queensland, Australia, 2002).
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SHEARMAN Bishop Donald, 76 Rockhampton Anglican bishop and OBE recipient.
AUS Governor-General and former Brisbane Anglican archbishop Peter
HOLLINGWORTH comes under fire after allowing Shearman to serve in church
while Brisbane archbishop despite being aware of allegations that Shearman
sexually abused at least 2 victims. Reports allege Shearman, of Brisbane,
assaulted one girl, aged 14, repeatedly over 2 year period in mid-1950s at
St John's Church of England Hostel, Forbes, central NSW. In 1993, another
victim allegedly went to Hollingworth with abuse claims against bishop but
apparently was discouraged from going to police. (Queensland, Australia,
2002).
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SMITH Raymond Colin, 40 Newcastle Mercy Ships Christian charity voluntary
youth worker. Pleads guilty in Newcastle District Court to molesting 2
girls, aged 6, in 1999 while working with Mercy Ships Ministry Of Youth With
A Mission Christian charity in Manila, Philippines. Court hears Smith lured
girls into room where he photographed their genitals and sexually assaulted
them. In 1997, Smith received 18 month suspended jail sentence and 3 year
probation in Brisbane court on pornography and indecent dealing charges
involving girls as young as four. Court told Smith committed latest offences
while on probation for earlier convictions. In 2002, Smith also ordered to
appear in Newcastle District Court to face charges of possessing more than
2700 images of child pornography found during raid by Australian Federal
Police at his parents' home at Newcastle, north of Sydney. (New South Wales,
Australia, 2002).
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Tulsa County, OK. An award-winning Christian musician was sentenced to five
years in prison Tuesday for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old
girl. Ja'Marc Davis pleaded guilty last month to three felony sex offenses,
including rape by instrumentation, lewd molestation and sodomy. Prosecutors
dismissed seven charges as part of a plea deal.(Tulsa World, 12/19/2001)
Christian musician was sentenced to five years in prison
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Oakland, CA. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Reverend Charles
Thomas of the Foothill Missionary Baptist Church. Thomas is accused of
having sex with a 15-year-old girl from his congregation during a month-long
period in the fall. Thomas reportedly called a special meeting with church
members last week and admitted that the charges were true. If convicted, he
could face up to eight years in prison. (12-11-2001; KPIX TV)
Reverend sought in crime
KPIX report
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MEADVILLE, LA. A Meadville minister was arrested Friday for an alleged
sexual offense with a 9-year-old girl. Derwin Rogers, 43, was being held
without bond Friday on charge of statutory rape of a female younger than 12
years old, said Franklin County Sheriff James Newman. Rogers, the pastor of
Emmanuel Full Gospel Church in Meadville, is believed to have assaulted the
girl at a house near the church that belonged to a church member, Newman
said. Rogers is also being charged with sexual battery charges filed by a
19-year-old former employee at the day care. Rogers pleaded not guilty to
the charges last week in Franklin County. (The Natchez Democrat, Dec. 1,
2001)
Minister charged in rape of girl
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Dallas, TX. A 38-year-old Dallas man was sentenced to nearly four years in
prison Monday for having a sexual relationship with his teen-age
stepdaughter, including while he was co-pastor of a Florida church. Phillip
Carpenter was sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty in
August to a charge of enticing a minor to travel in interstate commerce to
engage in illegal sexual activity. Prosecutors said Carpenter and his wife
were co-pastors of a church in Pinellas County, Florida, when he started
having sex with his step-daughter beginning when she was 15. She will be 17
next month. The church was not identified the church. (KTRK, 11/27/01)
Former pastor sentenced for sex with stepdaughter
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DENVER (October 30, 2001 10:06 a.m. EST) - A convicted child molester whose
appeal of his sentence led to shorter terms for more than 1,500 sex
offenders is accused of molesting a 14-year-old student from his Bible-study
class. Fort Lupton police issued a warrant Monday for Vance Martin, 35, on
charges he sexually assaulted the girl. He had not been arrested Tuesday.
(10/30/2001) AP.
Colorado child molester accused of assaulting girl in Bible-study class
Molester in Jail on New Charges
Dark History Eludes Church's Eyes
Molester in Jail on New Charges
Child sex abuse reaches far beyond Catholic Church, experts say.
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FORT WORTH (AP) - A former North Texas pastor has been indicted on counts of
sexual assault and indecency with three children, and police say allegations
against the man go back at least 10 years.
Evidence collected at Jon Warnshuis' house in Argyle has led to accusations
that he sexually abused at least five boys in Argyle, Grapevine and Laredo,
police say.
On Thursday, a Denton County grand jury returned three indictments against
Warnshuis, 41, alleging two counts of indecency with a child, eight counts
of sexual assault and four counts of aggravated sexual assault, District
Attorney Bruce Isaacks said.
Argyle Police Chief William Tackett said the indictments involve three
children at Oak Hills Evangelical Free Community Church near Argyle, where
Warnshuis was pastor for four years.
In the mid-1980s, Warnshuis moved from California to Texas, where he worked
toward a master's degree in divinity from Dallas Theological Seminary,
officials have said.
Police are also investigating accusations of sexual assault of boys at a
church that Warnshuis attended in the early 1980s in Escondido, Calif.
(November 10, 2001.)
Youth pastor faces charges, arraignment lists sexual abuse count
Church rebuilding faith after pastor's disgrace
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Marietta, GA. A 30-year-old former church martial arts instructor at
Eastside Baptist Church in Marietta was sentenced today to 90 years in
prison. Cobb County Superior Court Judge George Kreeger also sentenced
Gunther Fiek today to 90 years on probation. Fiek showed no emotion when
Kreeger announced the sentence. A jury convicted Fiek of 18 counts of child
molestation and three counts of aggravated child molestation in September.
(WSB-TV, October 19, 2001)
Fiek gets 90 years for child molestation
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In November 1998, Joe and Evangeline Combs were indicted on multiple charges
of aggravated child abuse, assault and kidnapping; Joe was further charged
with rape. Last spring, both were found guilty and sentenced to prison terms
that will likely keep them behind bars for the rest of their lives.
Beginning at age 11, Esther Combs was regularly sexually abused by her
father. She said he told her that King David had concubines, so this
behavior was condoned by the Bible. Esther, her three brothers and two
sisters were home-schooled. No visitors were allowed into the home - not
even parishioners. A later search of the property found it was filthy,
garbage and rat-infested and inhabited by caged cats and dogs. The pungent
odor was still faintly there last fall when the detective took me and our
cameras on a tour of the place. Richmond pointed out the basketball floor
where, she says Esther Combs "was beaten with ropes, chains, whips,
umbrellas, bats." (ABC News, Oct. 18. 2001)
How Esther Combs Finally Escaped a Lifetime of Abuse
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/2020/primetime_esthercombs_fea
ture.html
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