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WEST UNION, Iowa December 21, 2010 – A former Iowa pastor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year. The former pastor pleaded guilty to two charges of third-degree sexual abuse according to reports. Police indicate that all assaults took place at the church.
December 20th, 2010 – A Dallas County pastor is charged with four counts of second degree sexual assault involving minors. Reverend Ivory McDaniels,68, of Fordyce was released on bond Monday afternoon following his arrest Friday. Police say the alleged assaults involved teenage girls with whom McDaniels interacted while he worked as a substitute teacher at Fordyce High School. In one case, the actions reportedly began as early as 2009. Police opened the investigation following a call into the Child Abuse Hotline.
The alleged incidents reportedly occurred at school and not at church.
December 11 2010 – 
The victim of sex abuse at the hands of a former pastor of a Norfolk church has spoken of finally being able to have closure on her ordeal after he was jailed for two years and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
December 6, 2010 -
A former Anglican Church youth group leader who repeatedly raped a boy, 11, over a two-year period told his victim the assaults were okay because they were not against God’s word.
Simon Antony Jacobs, 58, from North Sydney, has pleaded guilty to four charges against two boys while he was a leader in the Church of England Boys Society, or CEBS, at two churches on the north shore during the 1970s and 1980s.
The charges – one count of buggery and three counts of committing an indecent act – relate to offences committed while he supervised the boys, who were both 11, as a CEBS leader at Christ Church, St Ives, and St Swithuns, in Pymble.
Jacobs is also accused of molesting another two boys, both 10, during the same period.
The District Court was told on Friday that Jacobs – now a management consultant – raped one of the boys, Victim A, at least twice a month from the beginning of 1978 to the end of 1980 in the downstairs bedroom of Jacobs’s parents’ home in St Ives.
At one point Victim A challenged Jacobs, who was then 25, about what he was doing.
”In his Bible studies [the victim] had read that a man and another man should not have sex together,” the court heard. ”Jacobs told him that it was permissible as they were not making babies.”
The court was told that Jacobs went to extraordinary lengths to groom his victims, telling them they were special and even shaving Victim A’s genitals and legs when he showed signs of puberty.
Jacobs also befriended the boys’ parents, hosted sleepovers, babysat the boys and their siblings, showered them with gifts, took Victim A to the rugby league at Brookvale Oval and bought ugg boots for Victim B.
”[Victim B] and his parents grew to know, like and to trust Jacobs,” the court heard.
”Jacobs regularly told the victim that he was a special person and singled him out to do special things from time to time. He also generally paid more attention to him than to the other boys.”
Jacobs also took nude photographs of both boys, comprising ”close-ups and full body shots”, the court heard. One photographic session took place when Jacobs took Victim A bushwalking behind Acron Oval, St Ives.
Victim B was assaulted while at a CEBS beach camp in 1983. Jacobs forced the boy to share a tent with him and assaulted him.
A spokesman for the Anglican Church said Jacobs had worked as a CEBS leader at Christ Church, St Ives, ”in various roles” from 1971 to 1981. In 1982 he moved to CEBS at St Swithuns in Pymble but left in 1984.
”The record is unclear, but at some point, possibly after leaving Pymble, a note was made that he was not to be issued with a leaders warrant, which he would have required in order to move to leadership in any CEBS group in another parish,” the spokesman said.
Jacobs is due to be sentenced in the District Court on March 4.