January 31, 2011 – Calgary Police report that sex charges have been filed against a former church volunteer following allegations involving three boys in the 1980s and 90s. According to the authorities the incidents took placed at the accused’s home. Rodman was a volunteer leader at one Calgary Baptist church on 1981. Rodman has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count each of gross indecency, indecent exposure to a person under 14 and sexual contact with a youth by a person in authority. He is due to appeared in court on February 10.
Posted By rodneypires on December 31, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sexual Assault
Aug 3, 2011 -
An Edenton children minister has been charged with internet sex crimes involving children.
Jonathan Rose was arrested Monday by the S.B.I. and the North Carolina Internet Crimes against Children Task Force.
Cumberland County deputies say the 35-year-old Rose engaged in illegal conversations with children via his computer.
Deputies say they had been looking for him for a couple of weeks, and on Monday went to his Dakota Trail home in Edenton and found out he was taking children from his church to a camp in Black Mountain, which is in the western part of the state. Rose was arrested as he stepped off the bus at the Ridgecrest Boys Camp.
Cumberland County deputies say Rose is a minister at Rocky Hock Baptist Church in Edenton. He’s been charged with solicitation of child by computer to commit unlawful sex acts and is being held on a $50,000 bond.
Senior Pastor Dr. James Horton of the church says he called a meeting with his congregation Tuesday night about the charges filled against Rose who has been with the church three years. Horton says, “It’s just an absolute shock to us. We just don’t know what to think or to make of it. Like I say we don’t know the content of it or what the accusations entail or exactly what happened so were just waiting to find out.”
Horton says rose has a wife and four children all under the age of 12 and came to their Edenton church from the Raleigh area with a good background.
The church’s web site says Pastor Jonathan Rose is their music and children minister.
Posted By rodneypires on August 4, 2011
Category: Child Pornography, Sex Crimes
Tags: Child Pornography
Aug 3, 2011 – A Summerville pastor accused of kidnapping and raping a woman last week was back in court Wednesday after another victim accused him of carrying out a similar assault almost a year ago.
In the new case, Dale Richardson is accused pulling a gun on a woman who accepted a ride with him on Aug. 12, 2010 on Dorchester Road. According to the arrest warrants, he bound her hands, put a cloth over her head and then drove her to a residence in Dorchester County, where he sexually assaulted her.
Afterwards, he drove her to an area off Carolina Commerce Parkway and ordered her to walk into a woods and not look back, the arrest warrants state.
Read more: http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/08/03/2314389/second-woman-accuses-pastor-of.html#ixzz1U6KhGHj3
Posted By rodneypires on August 4, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sexual Assault
June 24, 2011 – LEWISTOWN – On Friday 24 June 20011, Jason Phillips, the former youth pastor of Covenant Community Fellowship Church in Canton was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old parishioner, and was sentenced to four years in prison. Jason Phillips, will serve about three years and three months behind bars with credit for time served and so-called good time.
The Judge also ordered Phillips to pay $2,633 in restitution to the victim, for costs she incurred as the result of the case, and serve three years of probation. Jason Phillips must register as a convicted child sex offender. Kevin Sullivan the Defense Attorney said the case would be turned over to a public defender for appeal.
Posted By rodneypires on June 27, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
June 23, 2011 – Las Vegas, NV. -
Otis Holland
Henderson police are looking for a Las Vegas pastor wanted in connection with the sexual assault of underage girls.
Otis Holland, 54, is wanted on 11 counts of sexual assault of a victim under age 16, a count of child abuse and a count of conspiracy to commit a crime, police said.
Police issued the warrant last week, but said Holland may have fled to California.
In December, Holland was arrested on three counts of sexual assault of a victim under age 16. During the investigation, police said they discovered allegations that Holland may have had inappropriate conduct with other minors.
Holland was then arrested in January on a felony count of lewdness with a minor under age 14, police said.
The most recent arrest warrant comes from an investigation in which two other girls came forward earlier this month, police said.
Holland is a pastor at United Faith Church, which held services in the lobby of a tax service business on Hacienda Avenue in Las Vegas.
Posted By rodneypires on June 27, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
May 10, 2011 – CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire man faces a charge of felonious sexual assault on a 12-year-old girl, in a case in which a pastor and two church elders were convicted of not reporting the allegation to police.
Joel Clement, 53, of North Conway was indicted in April and arraigned last week, Conway Police said. He is free on a $10,000 personal recognizance bond. His next court date has not been set.
The pastor and two elders of the Valley Christian Church in Center Conway learned of the assault allegations from the girl’s parents in September 2009, but they failed to notify police. WMWV-FM reports that the parents told police six months later.
Ernest Willis, 52, of Gilford is charged with aggravated sex assault and felonious sex assault of his children’s then 15-year-old babysitter in 1997. Both Willis and the teen were congregants of Trinity Baptist Church in Concord at the time.
Information from: WMWV-FM,
Posted By rodneypires on May 10, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Saturday 7 May, 2011 – A volunteer at a Texas church home to the largest congregation in the United States has been charged with sexually abusing an autistic child.
Alvaro Daniel Guzman, 25, was charged with indecency with a child over a February 2010 incident at a Lakewood Church activities program for special needs children, according to local media reports in Houston. The arrest warrant was issued on Tuesday but Guzman is still free.
Lakewood is a Protestant “megachurch” run by pastor Joel Osteen, whose weekend services draw more than 40,000 people. Osteen’s television ministry is broadcast in dozens of countries.
Guzman allegedly fondled an 8-year-old autistic boy while he helped him climb into a play structure. Another adult volunteer allegedly witnessed the event and reported it to church officials and authorities.
The arrest warrant was issued this week. As of Saturday, Guzman was not in custody, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
Lakewood Church, in a statement posted on its web site, said Guzman was “immediately removed” from volunteer services and that state authorities were “notified immediately.”
Posted By rodneypires on May 9, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, Uncategorized
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
March 25, 2011 – The ex-bookkeeper of a California church has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing $129,000.
Orange County prosecutors originally charged 37-year-old Elyse Marie Kennedy with 154 felony counts of forgery with sentencing enhancements for embezzling money from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Tustin. If convicted at trial, she faced up to 107 years in prison.
It wasn’t a sophisticated crime: She wrote 154 checks to herself.
In a plea deal Thursday, the Santa Ana woman pleaded guilty to two felony counts of forgery. She was sentenced to two years, eight months in prison. A restitution hearing is set for June 24.
Posted By rodneypires on March 26, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
March 25, 2011 – Portland Oregon – The Pacific Northwest chapter of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jesuit order has agreed to pay $166 million to settle more than 500 child sexual abuse claims against priests in five states, attorneys said on Friday.
The victims, most of them Native Americans from remote Alaska Native villages or Indian reservations in the Pacific Northwest, were sexually or psychologically abused as children by Jesuit missionaries in those states in the 1940s through the 1990s, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said.
Posted By rodneypires on March 26, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
March 25, 2011 – MONTGOMERY, AL – The arrest report at the Montgomery Police Department shows 47-year-old Barry Cook was employed at Christian Life Church on Monticello Drive off the Eastern Boulevard.
The church website listed Cook as an instructor. Church leaders had no comment but we’re told Mr. Cook was fired this week.
Barry Cook remains in the Montgomery County Detention Center. Cook faces charges of sexual torture and aggravated child abuse.
Police say if and when Cook makes bond he will also face a third degree domestic violence charge.
Cook’s bonds total $500,000.
Posted By rodneypires on March 26, 2011
Category: Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
Tags: Sex Crimes
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