They have been indicted and face trial.
Do you believe that The Pennsylvania State University is a religiously affiliated institution?
(Other that is in regards to football being a religion at certain Division I Universities).
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Do you believe that The Pennsylvania State University is a religiously affiliated institution?
(Other that is in regards to football being a religion at certain Division I Universities).
Apparently he couldn't find where the article said the person was Jamaican born as he went onto another C&P. Classic CM. Rant and run.
Ah, you have a religiously affilliated school and a major secular University both of which have child sexual abuse investigations taking place.
So your point is what other than that we expect more of those at at religiously affilliated institution?
It's clear you really do not understand english and that's a big part of your problem.
everyday there are news of child sex abuse in churches and religious affiliated institutions
go to google news and type pastor charged
3 deaths due to religious insanity
Exorcism: Russian parents kill daughter to 'save her soul'
A Russian couple Sergei Koshimbetov, 49, a taxi driver, and Elena Antonova, a teacher in the city of Voronezh, are on trial on accusations that they tortured their 26-year-old daughter, beating, disemboweling and trampling her to death in an exorcism.
AFP reports that the couple, after they had thoroughly beaten up their daughter, attempted force-feeding her five liters of "holy water," as part of the ritual to rid her of "demons."
According to investigators, "After that, Antonova ripped a part of her daughter's intestine out with her hands...and the husband and wife trampled her body until she died."
The two are standing trial in spite of the opinion of psychiatrists that they are mentally ill. It is expected, however, that they will be committed to a mental institution. Evidence of psychiatric disturbance in Antonova and her husband Sergei comes from an interview in which Antonova denied killing her daughter. Antonova explained on television she did not kill her daughter's soul, she only killed her body. According to investigators, the couple firmly believe they did their daughter a favor by "killing her body" because it was infested with "demons." Investigators say the parents killed their "daughter's body" to save her from evil. AFP reports:
"The mother and father believed they were helping their daughter to stop loving her husband, believing him to be Satan."
After the 26-year-old Alexander died, her parents wrapped her in a blanket and announced to relatives that she would resurrect in three days.
AFP reports Anotonova arrived in court holding a Bible. She was puzzled about talk of committing her to an insane asylum. She says:
"How can they take me to a madhouse — I feel fine."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/313783#ixzz1eCkBNDfb
Priest held after girl's exorcism death
Port Elizabeth - A priest and members of his congregation have been arrested for killing a child in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape police said on Thursday.
Lieutenant Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the 22-year-old priest and four of his congregants were arrested on Wednesday.
Naidu said they killed the 7-year-old girl while conducting a violent exorcism a week ago.
"The parents and the church members felt that the child was demonised [possessed] and needed prayer," said Naidu.
Internal injuries
During the exorcism, they realised the girl needed medical attention and tried to take her to hospital, but she died on the way there.
A post-mortem revealed that she had sustained internal injuries.
Naidu said that on the night of the girl's death, police found bruises on her body and had noted that her eyes were swollen.
"It is suspected that for that hour or two, the girl must have been pushed back and forth while she was being prayed for," she said.
The five men arrested were expected to appear in the Humansdorp Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Priest-held-after-girls-exorcism-death-20111117
FOUR people in the Northern Territory have pleaded guilty to manslaughter after a woman on a remote island died during an exorcism.
Glenys Wurrawilya, Paul Wurramara, Susie Wurrawilya and Roderick Mamarika all pleaded guilty to causing the death of Sarah Bara on Groote Eylandt in November last year.
The four were accused of killing Ms Bara in a fire-circle ceremony during which they tried to cleanse her of the devil.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/four-guilty-over-fatal-exorcism-20111116-1nj7g.html#ixzz1eCknvA33
Exorcism: Russian parents kill daughter to 'save her soul'
A Russian couple Sergei Koshimbetov, 49, a taxi driver, and Elena Antonova, a teacher in the city of Voronezh, are on trial on accusations that they tortured their 26-year-old daughter, beating, disemboweling and trampling her to death in an exorcism.
AFP reports that the couple, after they had thoroughly beaten up their daughter, attempted force-feeding her five liters of "holy water," as part of the ritual to rid her of "demons."
According to investigators, "After that, Antonova ripped a part of her daughter's intestine out with her hands...and the husband and wife trampled her body until she died."
The two are standing trial in spite of the opinion of psychiatrists that they are mentally ill. It is expected, however, that they will be committed to a mental institution. Evidence of psychiatric disturbance in Antonova and her husband Sergei comes from an interview in which Antonova denied killing her daughter. Antonova explained on television she did not kill her daughter's soul, she only killed her body. According to investigators, the couple firmly believe they did their daughter a favor by "killing her body" because it was infested with "demons." Investigators say the parents killed their "daughter's body" to save her from evil. AFP reports:
"The mother and father believed they were helping their daughter to stop loving her husband, believing him to be Satan."
After the 26-year-old Alexander died, her parents wrapped her in a blanket and announced to relatives that she would resurrect in three days.
AFP reports Anotonova arrived in court holding a Bible. She was puzzled about talk of committing her to an insane asylum. She says:
"How can they take me to a madhouse — I feel fine."
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/313783#ixzz1eCkBNDfb
Priest held after girl's exorcism death
Port Elizabeth - A priest and members of his congregation have been arrested for killing a child in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape police said on Thursday.
Lieutenant Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the 22-year-old priest and four of his congregants were arrested on Wednesday.
Naidu said they killed the 7-year-old girl while conducting a violent exorcism a week ago.
"The parents and the church members felt that the child was demonised [possessed] and needed prayer," said Naidu.
Internal injuries
During the exorcism, they realised the girl needed medical attention and tried to take her to hospital, but she died on the way there.
A post-mortem revealed that she had sustained internal injuries.
Naidu said that on the night of the girl's death, police found bruises on her body and had noted that her eyes were swollen.
"It is suspected that for that hour or two, the girl must have been pushed back and forth while she was being prayed for," she said.
The five men arrested were expected to appear in the Humansdorp Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Priest-held-after-girls-exorcism-death-20111117
FOUR people in the Northern Territory have pleaded guilty to manslaughter after a woman on a remote island died during an exorcism.
Glenys Wurrawilya, Paul Wurramara, Susie Wurrawilya and Roderick Mamarika all pleaded guilty to causing the death of Sarah Bara on Groote Eylandt in November last year.
The four were accused of killing Ms Bara in a fire-circle ceremony during which they tried to cleanse her of the devil.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/four-guilty-over-fatal-exorcism-20111116-1nj7g.html#ixzz1eCknvA33
Bull shit, if there was, you'd be on here every day reporting it.
Let's try it. For the next 5 days post a contemporary report on child abuse in churches and religious institutions.
Member: Sherif Ashamalla
Registration number: 278403
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Cancelled
Following notification by the Durham Catholic District School Board, the Registrar initiated a complaint against Sherif Ashamalla, a member of the College, alleging that he had sent inappropriate sexual e-mail to two female minor students and that he had invited them to touch him in a sexual manner.
Member's Name: Barry Mark Anderson
Registration Number: 395310
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Revoked
A panel of the Discipline Committee held a public hearing on April 6, 2005 into allegations of professional misconduct and/or incompetence against Barry Mark Anderson. Anderson was certified to teach in 1996 and was employed as a teacher by the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board. The member did not attend the hearing and was not represented by counsel.
Anderson faced eight allegations of professional misconduct and incompetence related to the sexual assault of two female students.
In the absence of the member, the chair of the panel entered a plea of not guilty on Anderson's behalf.
The College withdrew the allegations of incompetence.
College counsel presented evidence that Anderson had been convicted in 2003 of sexual assault on two female students or former students. The panel heard that in 2001 the member gave an 18-year-old student rides to and from school and discussed personal matters with her. In October 2001, he invited her to his apartment for dinner and provided her with alcohol and marijuana. He made sexual advances to her, which the student resisted and left his apartment.
In June 2002, the member invited a 17-year-old former student to his apartment for dinner where the two drank and the student became intoxicated. Anderson sexually assaulted the student who later reported the matter to the police.
In 2003, Anderson was convicted of sexual assault and in February 2004 was sentenced to a prison term of 15 months and probation for two years. He did not appeal the conviction or the sentence.
Member: Daniel Arbour
Registration Number: 286964
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Cancelled
Following notification by the Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest, the Registrar initiated a complaint against Daniel Arbour, a member of the College. The Registrar alleged that the member had engaged in a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old female student. The relationship continued when the student was no longer attending the school.
As published in the March 2011 edition of Professionally Speaking
Member: Gordon Charles Baxter
Decision: Revocation
A Discipline Committee panel revoked the certificate of Niagara Catholic DSB teacher Gordon Charles Baxter for engaging in a sexual relationship with a female student.
Baxter joined the teaching profession in June 1977. He did not attend the November 3, 2010 hearing nor have legal representation there.
The panel heard evidence that Baxter befriended a Grade 10 female student whom he coached and tutored. In the summer of 2008, he communicated with the student by e-mail, MSN chats and telephone.
During the girl’s Grade 11 year, the two became close friends. Baxter kept up his telephone and electronic communications, disclosing personal information and flirting. He also hugged the student in his school portable more than once and spent time with her during school hours and at his home.
After turning 17, the student developed a crush on Baxter. She told him she liked him, and he reciprocated those feelings. In February 2009 Baxter invited the girl to watch football’s Super Bowl at his home, whereupon he kissed and cuddled her. Between February and April that year, the two engaged in a sexual relationship that involved kissing, cuddling, hugging, and her performing fellatio on him. They did not engage in sexual intercourse, nor did any sexual activity occur at the school.
In June 2009 Baxter resigned from the board. That same month he pleaded guilty to a charge of being a person in a position of trust and authority toward a young person and touching that person with a part of his body for a sexual purpose. He received an intermittent 14-day jail sentence, followed by a one-year probation.
Member: Paul Gary Bedard
Registration number: 261280
Decision: Revocation
A Discipline Committee panel held a public hearing on July 8, 2008 into allegations of professional misconduct against Paul Gary Bedard related to a criminal conviction for the assault, sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a female student.
Bedard received his BEd in 1990 and taught for the Sudbury Catholic DSB. He resigned his College membership in 2004. Bedard did not attend the hearing and was not represented by counsel.
The panel heard evidence that Bedard was convicted of sexually assaulting a student, jailed for nine months, and prohibited from possessing weapons or firearms for 10 years.
Having considered the evidence, a plea of no contest, an agreed statement of facts, submissions on penalty and the submissions of College counsel, the panel found Bedard guilty of professional misconduct and directed the Registrar to revoke his Certificates of Qualification and Registration.
"The member, by grooming young women under his supervision who were vulnerable and susceptible to him, abused the power and trust vested in him as a teacher," the panel wrote in its decision. "The manner in which the member groomed this vulnerable student over a period of time and then violated her trust adds to the aggravation. He caused emotional, psychological and sexual harm to a student for his own gratification. Given the facts, the appropriate penalty is to revoke the member's Certificates of Qualification and Registration."
Member: Stéphane Léonard Bélanger
Registration Number: 288018
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Revoked
A panel of the Discipline Committee held a public hearing on March 24, 2004, into allegations of professional misconduct and/or incompetence against Stéphane Léonard Bélanger. Bélanger was certified to teach in 1998 and was employed by the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Centre-Est de l'Ontario in Ottawa. The member did not attend the hearing and was not represented by counsel.
The member faced nine allegations of professional misconduct related to inappropriate interaction with a 15-year-old student.
Counsel for the College withdrew two of the allegations at the opening of the hearing.
In the absence of the member, the chair of the panel entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Bélanger.
The panel heard evidence from a female student that during the 2001-02 school year, she received special treatment from Bélanger. The member called on her more often in class, celebrated her 15th birthday by showing a film in class, changed a test mark to a better grade based on a verbal response given after the test and offered to pay for her to go on a ski trip.
The student testified that Bélanger visited her where she worked part-time, sometimes paying for her lunch. He told her he loved her and wanted to marry her.
He gave her his home and cell phone numbers and the two exchanged e-mails. Bélanger created a special e-mail account exclusively for the student so that her parents wouldn't know they were communicating.
Bélanger took her to his apartment on several occasions and in late January 2002, he took her to his apartment and they had sex. When she returned home, she told her mother what had happened and her mother took her to the hospital.
The principal of the school testified that he met with Bélanger in the spring of 2001 and again in the fall about rumours that he was socializing with students. At that time, the member admitted he had been drinking in bars with students he knew were underage. The principal warned him that his actions were unacceptable behaviour for a member of the profession.
In early January 2002, the student's parents complained to the principal about Bélanger's relationship with their daughter. The principal subsequently told the member he was not to meet with any student without a colleague present, was not to offer rides in his car to students nor socialize with them outside the school. Bélanger said he accepted the conditions but resigned later that month at the end of the semester. The principal said he later learned the member was working for another school board.
The panel heard evidence from a social worker with the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa-Carleton who was assigned to the case in early January 2002. The social worker interviewed the student and Bélanger. The student said that the member had kissed her. Bélanger denied that he had any sexual feelings for the student.
The social worker said she received a call in late January from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario advising her that Bélanger had had sexual relations with the student.
The panel accepted the evidence as presented by the student, the principal and the social worker. The panel found that the member abused the student sexually, psychologically and emotionally by fostering an inappropriate emotional and psychological relationship with the student that ended with kissing, touching and sexual intercourse.
Member's Name: Daniel Francis Burnie
Registration Number: 147205
Decision: Suspended for 10 days and Reprimand
A panel of the Discipline Committee held a public hearing in September and November 2001 into allegations of professional misconduct against Daniel Francis Burnie. Burnie was certified to teach in 1973 and was employed as a teacher by the former Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Newcastle Roman Catholic Separate School Board, now known as the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board. Burnie attended the hearing and was represented by counsel.
The allegations against Burnie related to events that occurred between 1974 and 1978.
The panel heard the testimony of three witnesses, alleging that Burnie engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a female student who attended the school where Burnie taught at the time the relationship began.
The student told the panel that her relationship with Burnie began when she and a group of other young female students assisted Burnie in decorating bulletin boards, setting up classroom workstations and undertaking daily tasks in his classroom after school. The victim said the relationship started out as friendly, kind and professional but evolved over time into a personal relationship involving social outings and conduct of a sexual nature.
Witnesses at the hearing corroborated that students helped Burnie after class and went on social outings, including trips out of town, outside the normal school day and without the knowledge of the parents or Burnie's school administration.
Member: George Albert Cameron
Registration number: 221223
Decision: Revocation
A Discipline Committee panel held a public hearing on May 7, 2008 into allegations of professional misconduct against George Albert Cameron related to a criminal conviction for sex with minors.
Cameron, who was certified to teach in December 1991 and worked for the York Catholic DSB, attended the hearing and was represented by counsel.
The panel heard evidence that Cameron was convicted in New Brunswick for acts of gross indecency, indecent assault, sexual assault on three females in his care, and attempting to have sexual intercourse with two of them. Consequently, he was sentenced to jail for a total of 28 months.
Having considered the evidence, onus and standard of proof, and the submissions of counsel, the panel found Cameron guilty of professional misconduct and directed the Registrar to revoke his Certificates of Qualification and Registration.
“Sexual assault of a child is among the most reprehensible and egregious acts that any member of society can commit,” the panel wrote. “When a sexual assault involves minors and the person committing the assault is a member of the teaching profession, a profession that is entrusted with the care and protection of children, revocation is the only appropriate penalty.”
Member: Peter Lorne Cameron
Registration Number: 298717
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Revoked
A panel of the Discipline Committee held a public hearing on February 14, 2005, into allegations of professional misconduct against Peter Lorne Cameron. Cameron was certified to teach in 1970 and was employed as a teacher in Buckingham, Quebec. The member did not attend the hearing and was not represented by counsel.
The member faced nine allegations of professional misconduct related to his conviction for sexual assault on a number of male students.
In the absence of the member, the chair of the panel entered a plea of not guilty on Cameron's behalf.
The panel heard evidence that in June 2002, Cameron was charged in Quebec with 13 counts of indecent assault on eight male students. The assaults occurred between September 1975 and June 1977 when the students were 12 and 13 years of age.
In September 2003, Cameron pleaded guilty to eight counts of sexual assault.
In November 2004, Cameron was sentenced to a prison term of two years less a day and ordered to pay $3,000 to cover the cost of his victims' therapeutic or psychological treatment.
Member: Paul Anthony Chambers
Registration Number: 204586
Decision: Certificates of Qualification and Registration Revoked
A panel of the Discipline Committee held a public hearing on February 25, 2002 into allegations of professional misconduct against Paul Anthony Chambers. Chambers was certified to teach in 1990 and was employed as a teacher by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Chambers did not to attend the hearing and was not represented.
The allegations of professional misconduct against Chambers included: failing to maintain the standards of the profession; abusing students physically, sexually, verbally, psychologically or emotionally; failing to comply with the Ontario College of Teachers Act and the Education Act; contravening a law that is relevant to his suitability to hold Certificates of Qualification and Registration; committing acts that would be regarded as dishonourable or unprofessional; and engaging in conduct unbecoming a member.
The panel heard evidence that Chambers was convicted of two counts of sexual exploitation of two female students in 1999 and was given a six-month conditional sentence and three years probation during which he is prohibited from holding a position of trust with any female under the age of 18.
And "everyday" there is news of the sexual abuse of children in secular institutions.
So again, what is your point other than that we expect more of those at at religiously affilliated institutions, and the dispointment is greater when they fail to live up to those expectations.
i should add that the above is a very very tiny sampling. I see these disciplinary hearing reports monthly, and without fail, there are always several of a sexual abuse nature. I could go on for pages. onlygleaned a few from the A's B's andone ot two C's
So do you believe that the Russian Orthodox Church approves of the behaviour of the mentally ill couple who murdered their daughter?
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The South Africa article does not even bother to tell us what denomination the "Priest" is supposedly in Holy Orders in. What do you suppose are the odds it is nothing mainstream?
I guess you don't understand the word 'contemporary'. CM should be able to supply us with a new report for each day this week, not historical accounts nod ~200 occurrences involving a staff of ~100,000 teachers covering 20+ years. Again we confirm one of your problems, english comprehension. Your trying to hard, again.
Nice of you to offer a reference, not, but just on case you meant to;
http://www.oct.ca/investigations_hearings/decision_summaries/default.aspx?lang=en-CA
Whitewaterguy, are teachers in the Ontario "Catholic" school system members of a "Religious Institution?" Do any of the dozen plus Roman Catholic Diocesan Bishops in the Province of Ontario exercise any control over these teachers?
Hemet pastor charged with having sex with girl
By City News Service, on November 7, 2011, at 7:00 am
The founder of an Oceanside church accused of having a two-year sexual relationship with a preteen Murrieta girl is expected to be arraigned Monday.
Matthias Anderson, 41, of Hemet is charged with 25 counts of lewd acts on a child, seven counts of unlawful intercourse, and one count each of sexual penetration with a foreign object and oral copulation of a minor.
Anderson was arrested Tuesday and remains held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta.
According to Murrieta police, the girl and her mother are members of New Wine Ministries Church, which Anderson started in 2002 while stationed at Camp Pendleton. He has since retired from the Marine Corps and now ministers full time.
Murrieta police Sgt. Phil Gomez said the girl and her mother, whose names were withheld, came forward recently with allegations that the pastor had been molesting the youngster since 2009.
“The sexual relationship … occurred multiple times in both Riverside and San Diego counties,” Gomez said.
Anderson would pick the girl up at her house and take her to another location, the sergeant said. When he showed up to retrieve the girl last Tuesday, Murrieta police officers were waiting to arrest him, according to Gomez.
“Based on the investigation, detectives believe there is a possibility of additional victims in the Oceanside area,” the sergeant said.
http://www.swrnn.com/2011/11/07/hemet-pastor-charged-with-having-sex-with-girl/
LITTLE ROCK — A Jonesboro pastor has pleaded guilty to defrauding an Oklahoma bank and failure to pay payroll taxes, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
The office also announced indictments against five northeastern Arkansas residents on drug distribution and firearms charges.
Scott Keith Voss, 43, pastor and president of First Pentecostal Church of Jonesboro, faces up to 35 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.25 million, U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer said in a release.
In the plea agreement, Voss agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $450,000 to First Bank of Owasso and $148,564 to the Internal Revenue Service.
The federal prosecutor’s office said from September 2007 to June 2010, Voss was involved in a scheme to defraud the bank. He applied for a loan using the church’s Jonesboro Worship Center as collateral, even though he never obtained authorization from the church’s board of directors, prosecutors said.
http://arkansasnews.com/2011/11/15/jonesboro-pastor-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-tax-evasion-charges/
Pastor charged with 34 sex offenses against girl
http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...charged-with-34-sex-offenses-against-girl.ece
A former youth minister at Hyland Baptist Church was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse involving two juveniles who were members of the church.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/nov/20/ky-youth-pastor-faces-abuse-charges/
A former youth pastor at Heritage Christian Church has been charged with sexually molesting a boy under the age of 16, The Citizen has learned.
Nathan Donald Moore, 24, of Lone Oak Drive in south Fayette County is being held in jail without bond on six counts of felony child molestation, six counts of felony aggravated child molestation and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes.
According to the arrest warrants filed in the case, the incidents happened between March 1 and Aug. 31 of this year at Moore’s residence, which is located on the far southern edge of Fayette County.
http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-06-2011/youth-pastor-charged-child-molestation
By City News Service, on November 7, 2011, at 7:00 am
The founder of an Oceanside church accused of having a two-year sexual relationship with a preteen Murrieta girl is expected to be arraigned Monday.
Matthias Anderson, 41, of Hemet is charged with 25 counts of lewd acts on a child, seven counts of unlawful intercourse, and one count each of sexual penetration with a foreign object and oral copulation of a minor.
Anderson was arrested Tuesday and remains held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta.
According to Murrieta police, the girl and her mother are members of New Wine Ministries Church, which Anderson started in 2002 while stationed at Camp Pendleton. He has since retired from the Marine Corps and now ministers full time.
Murrieta police Sgt. Phil Gomez said the girl and her mother, whose names were withheld, came forward recently with allegations that the pastor had been molesting the youngster since 2009.
“The sexual relationship … occurred multiple times in both Riverside and San Diego counties,” Gomez said.
Anderson would pick the girl up at her house and take her to another location, the sergeant said. When he showed up to retrieve the girl last Tuesday, Murrieta police officers were waiting to arrest him, according to Gomez.
“Based on the investigation, detectives believe there is a possibility of additional victims in the Oceanside area,” the sergeant said.
http://www.swrnn.com/2011/11/07/hemet-pastor-charged-with-having-sex-with-girl/
LITTLE ROCK — A Jonesboro pastor has pleaded guilty to defrauding an Oklahoma bank and failure to pay payroll taxes, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
The office also announced indictments against five northeastern Arkansas residents on drug distribution and firearms charges.
Scott Keith Voss, 43, pastor and president of First Pentecostal Church of Jonesboro, faces up to 35 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.25 million, U.S. Attorney Chris Thyer said in a release.
In the plea agreement, Voss agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $450,000 to First Bank of Owasso and $148,564 to the Internal Revenue Service.
The federal prosecutor’s office said from September 2007 to June 2010, Voss was involved in a scheme to defraud the bank. He applied for a loan using the church’s Jonesboro Worship Center as collateral, even though he never obtained authorization from the church’s board of directors, prosecutors said.
http://arkansasnews.com/2011/11/15/jonesboro-pastor-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-tax-evasion-charges/
Pastor charged with 34 sex offenses against girl
http://www.pe.com/local-news/rivers...charged-with-34-sex-offenses-against-girl.ece
A former youth minister at Hyland Baptist Church was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse involving two juveniles who were members of the church.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/nov/20/ky-youth-pastor-faces-abuse-charges/
A former youth pastor at Heritage Christian Church has been charged with sexually molesting a boy under the age of 16, The Citizen has learned.
Nathan Donald Moore, 24, of Lone Oak Drive in south Fayette County is being held in jail without bond on six counts of felony child molestation, six counts of felony aggravated child molestation and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes.
According to the arrest warrants filed in the case, the incidents happened between March 1 and Aug. 31 of this year at Moore’s residence, which is located on the far southern edge of Fayette County.
http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-06-2011/youth-pastor-charged-child-molestation
People from whom we expect far more, do horrible things i.e. sin. Innocent people have their lives very deeply affected for ill.
Do you honestly believe, however, that most of the criminal prosecutions involving pedophilia in Southern California, Kentucky and North Carolina involve churches?
Likewise do you believe that most criminal prosecutions for financial malfeasance in Arkansas involve clerics?
Or are these cases but a small subset of the much larger number of such cases prosecuted in each of these jurisdictions each year.
By the way your first and third links are the same criminal case.
Do you honestly believe, however, that most of the criminal prosecutions involving pedophilia in Southern California, Kentucky and North Carolina involve churches?
Likewise do you believe that most criminal prosecutions for financial malfeasance in Arkansas involve clerics?
Or are these cases but a small subset of the much larger number of such cases prosecuted in each of these jurisdictions each year.
By the way your first and third links are the same criminal case.
it's a religious affiliated institution. Each school has an assigned priest, who does mass for the kids, counsels them, helps cover up the indiscretions of the teachers. There are religious statues, prayers, objects, courses, the works. The Bishops do in fact at times visit the schools, completely decked out in their "lamma lamma ding dong"outfits and hats, and they do in fact exercise a great deal of informal and political control over what goes on in the schools both with teachers and with the kids.
religious fanatic, theocratic and fascist leader continues to make people angry
Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.
“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.
But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.
He said: “That is not normal. I don't know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”
Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.
Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church's sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.
“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,
“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.
“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context' he can't control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context' he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”
The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope's role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.
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Pope’s child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.
“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.
But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.
He said: “That is not normal. I don't know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”
Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.
Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church's sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.
“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,
“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.
“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context' he can't control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context' he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”
The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope's role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...age-among-victims-15035449.html#ixzz1eOACtREg
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