In the late 2000s, Gatlin found ways to spend time alone with girls as young as 12. He assaulted one on a bus ride home from a church event, another whom he had tied to his parents' bed, and another under the guise of watching a football game together at his family's home, the complaint said. In his early 20s, he regularly kissed and groped a girl who was 16 and a few years later he regularly assaulted a girl who was 15, according to the complaint. (source)
His father was senior pastor at the church and his mother held some position of authority too. Both refused to cooperate with the investigation into their son’s crimes against children.~~~
Matthew Martinez—Oklahoma pastor at New Heights Baptist Church and Academy
She said Martinez first touched her hand and foot but then progressed to putting his hand up her skirt several times. She said he also touched her chest area and made her touch him. (source)~~~
Josiah Gunderson—Grand Forks, North Dakota evangelical church member.
He was sentenced to a piddling 180 days of electronic home monitoring for the molestation of a 10 yr old girl. The abuse was caught on church cameras.
He gets 180 days of monitoring in the comfort of his own home. How long is the sentence for the 10 year old child he abused? I bet her hell lasts longer than his staycation.
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Daniel Shealy—Rock Hill, South Carolina cop.
... accused of sharing videos via the Kik Messenger app featuring children between the ages of 5 and 15, according to arrest warrants. (source)
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William Morrissey, rural New York State cop pleads guilty to all charges. The charges?
Cayuga County District Attorney Brittany Antonacci said her office will be recommending an aggregate sentence of four years in prison with 10 years of post-release supervision and a requirement that he register as a lifetime sex offender. (source)
- Sexual abuse in the first degree
- Disseminating indecent material to minors in the first degree as a sexually-motivated felony
- Official misconduct
- Endangering the welfare of a child
~~~Joshua Pearson—member of the now defunct Open Gate Church in Hilliard, Ohio.
According to the seven-count indictment filed on Tuesday, 23-year-old Joshua Pearson was charged with four counts of rape, two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and gross sexual imposition. (source)All of his victims were 10 AND YOUNGER.
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Tony Bunton—preacher in North Carolina
An Iredell County pastor has been sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of child pornography charges. (source)~~~
Matthew Dessert—Sheriff’s Deputy in Stanislavsky, California
He was arrested for several penal code violations, including continual sexual abuse of a child; lewd and lascivious acts with a minor 14 or 15 years of age; penetration with a foreign object of a victim under the age of 18; sexual battery; and physical abuse of a child. (source)~~~
Kenneth Malphurs—Wakulla County, Florida deputy
He was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor under the age of 12.
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Mark Benson—Story County, Iowa Community of Christ Church pastor
Prosecutors say Mark Benson, 69, gave a young girl medicine to make her sleep, then sexually assaulted her several times between 2009 and 2012, when she was between 10 and 13 years old. (source)~~~
William Pinckney Carpenter III—church youth leader in South Carolina
…arrested on Monday for criminal sexual conduct with a minor, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. It came just a year after his initial arrest on previous child sex crime charges. (source)~~~
Matthew Bryan Thilges—House Springs, Missouri MAGAt, gun fetishist and child porn freak.
During the search of Thilges’ mobile home, agents allegedly found eight assault rifles; a handgun; two loaded 100-round drum magazines; a tactical vest with three loaded pistol magazines; four loaded rifle magazines and additional pistol magazines, assault rifle magazines and ammunition, according to the report.
The search also uncovered a nearly 4-foot tall, child-like sex doll in a bedroom closet and photographs of a partially-clothed girl on Thilges’ phone. A search of his computer allegedly revealed thousands of images of child pornography that had been deleted but still was stored in the computer’s unallocated space. (source)
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Shawn Jordan—Rochester, New York cop
A former Rochester police officers was arrested Tuesday, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. (source)~~~
Benjamin Garlick— Murfreesboro, Tennessee evangelical preacher
Evangelist / Guest Pastor at a Variety of Churches arrested on 5-counts of Aggravated Rape of a Child, 5-counts of Aggravated Sexual Battery of a Minor who was under the age of 13, 1-count of Soliciting Sexual Exploitation of a Minor who was under the age of 13, and 1-count of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. (source)~~~
Kendal Kippen—youth pastor in Arlington, Washington.
A former youth pastor convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at his Arlington church was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison. (source)14 months? Jesus, that’s cheap!
And then theirs Cheeto appointed Supreme Court Stooge, Amy Covid Barrett’s religious cult—People of Praise:
The FBI has interviewed several individuals who have alleged they were abused by members of the People of Praise (PoP), a secretive Christian sect that counts conservative supreme court justice Amy Coney Barrett as a lifelong member, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The individuals were contacted following a years-long effort by a group called PoP Survivors, who have called for the South Bend-based sect to be investigated for leaders’ handling of sexual abuse allegations. The body, which has 54 members, has alleged that abuse claims were routinely mishandled or covered up for decades in order to protect the close-knit faith group. (source)
Is it any wonder that I'm not inclined to trust religious folk, cops, authority figures in general and dudes with neck beards?
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