Archdiocese Sues to Keep Statute of Limitations on Abuse
A Maryland law that did away with time limits for legal action by survivors of childhood sexual abuse is being challenged by the Archdiocese of Washington. The Maryland Child Victims Act passed in the state's General Assembly and went into effect October 1st. The bill was a years' long effort by advocates for survivors who worked for the passage of similar measures in Annapolis.
Previously, Maryland's law allowed victims to take legal action until they turned 38 years old. After that point, something called the "statute of repose" would extend immunity to potential defendants. Attorneys for the Archdiocese argued that the protections provided by the statute of repose "by its very nature, cannot be retroactively 'repealed' and the legislature's effort to do so was a clear violation of the due process."
Moms for Liberty Leader is Sexually Abused Children
Phillip Fisher, Jr. is a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia's Moms for Liberty chapter. He is also a registered sex offender, due to a 2012 felony conviction for aggravated sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy when Fisher was 25.
Fisher insists that he did nothing wrong, despite pleading guilty to one of 12 counts filed against him after an investigation by the Chicago Police Department, according to court records. Fisher was living in Chicago at the time. But he is from Philadelphia and has since returned and become active in local politics.
He is the pastor at the Center of Universal Divinity in Olney and works with Moms for Liberty, a national conservative organization that bills itself as a defender of parental rights, by connecting the Philadelphia chapter with other local faith leaders in an effort to grow the group.
Priest Marries Teen After Fleeing to Italy with Her
A local priest and the high school student with whom he left the country for Europe this summer are now married, according to records filed with Mobile County Probate Court.
Alex Crow, 30, and 18-year-old Taylor Victoria Harrison were married last Friday, according to the date on the marriage certificate. Crow and Harrison, a graduate of McGill-Toolen High School, where Crow had worked as a guest lecturer, left Mobile and traveled to Europe over the summer.
They remained there for roughly four months while both the Mobile County Sheriff's Office and Mobile County District Attorney's Office conducted what would ultimately be fruitless investigations into possible wrongdoing by the former priest in the Archdiocese of Mobile.
Living Word International Church minister James Randolph was arrested and charged Tuesday with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, four counts of second-degree CSC, and one count of accosting children for immoral purposes for crimes that occurred in 2011.
Randolph is charged with seven felony counts, and is out of jail on a $500,000 cash bond. His second-degree CSC charges include one with a person under 13-years-old, and two involving a relative. Randolph is the son-in-law of Mark Barclay of Mark Barclay Ministries which operates Living Word Church.
Alphonso Joseph, the 50-year-old pastor at several Bunnell churches, was sentenced this afternoon to five years in prison followed by 10 years on sex-offender probation after pleading guilty to having sex with an underage boy.
Joseph will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life, and will have to follow rigorous sex-offender conditions once released from prison, where he will not be eligible for early release.
His conditions include a prohibition on working or volunteering as a pastor or church leader in any capacity. Joseph had been a pastor at Vision Cathedral and Destined for Greatness Ministries in Bunnell.
GOP Chair, Husband of Moms For Liberty Founder Accused of Rape by Throuple Partner
Christian Ziegler, Florida's GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department accusing the longtime Republican official of raping her, according to a heavily-redacted police report.
The complaint was filed on October 4th, and the sexual battery occurred inside the woman's home in Sarasota, according to the report. Among the few words that went unredacted in the report are "rape" and "sexual battery."
The woman, according to sources close to the investigation, stated that she and both Zieglers had been involved in a longstanding consensual three-way sexual relationship prior to the incident. The incident under investigation by Sarasota police occurred when Christian Ziegler and the woman were alone at the woman's house, without Bridget Ziegler present, the sources conveyed.
Multiple GOP sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the sexual battery investigation, and said the probe also involves allegations of illegally taping sex acts.
The allegations are sure to reverberate across Florida's political landscape, throwing the Florida GOP into turmoil at a time when the party is gearing up for the 2024 election.
An East Bay pastor is under arrest for sex crimes with an underage member of his church, and police believe there may be more victims.
Pastor Victor Hernandez Pineda is known for his passionate sermons by those who attend Iglesia Pentecostal Movimiento de Gloria, a Spanish-language Christian church in Richmond. "We've always loved our pastor, truly. All of us. The whole church," said Eber Cuellar, one of the members.
Police say Hernandez Pineda faces four counts of sexual assault of a child and three counts of kidnapping. They are asking anyone else who may have been victimized to come forward.
In Illinois, sexual education is taught in two stages, and it is called "Health." In grade five, when students are 10–11, they are taught about puberty, and recognizing and reporting sexual abuse. In grade 10, when students are 15–16, they are taught about sexual health and reproduction, and consent.
The sexual health instruction in stage two is primarily focused on STI prevention. And since there are no sex acts that homosexuals do that heterosexual do not also do, homosexuality is not specifically addressed. Rather, the focus is on what methods of prevention are appropriate for different types of sexual contact.
It is all very clinical, but conservatives are so repressed, they become aroused reading medical terms for genitals. And because they feel embarrassed and ashamed by the material, they think it should be censored for everyone. But that is their modus operandi: they seek external controls, because they have no self-regulation.
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"It is all very clinical, but conservatives are so repressed, they become aroused reading medical terms for genitals. And because they feel embarrassed and ashamed by the material, they think it should be censored for everyone. But that is their modus operandi: they seek external controls, because they have no self-regulation." -Adam_PoE
When I was 11/12 I remember being taught about prostitution and how women as young as 12 would roam the streets and prostitute themselves to pay for their mother's rent or whatever.
I didn't fully understand at the time, but as I've gotten older, I'm glad I was told about these kind of things at an early age so I could be cautious when I got older.
Or to put it another way, there's a big difference between having sex in the streets with a slag who wants to get pregnant for a free house from the government and a cute, sexy lady you met in college.
A former Midlands pastor has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for criminal sexual conduct involving children, according to court records and the 5th Circuit Solicitor's Office.
William Oswald, 61, of Prosperity was sentenced to two consecutive 20-year prison terms by state Judge Eugene Griffith after a weeklong trial in Richland County state court last week.
The trial lasted all of last week, and the jury was out approximately three hours. A statement from the solicitor's office said that Oswald repeatedly molested the two young girls in the 1990s.
Pastors Kills Himself Amid Child Sex Abuse Investigation
Police in Nashua have confirmed statements made by a local church that one of its pastors was under investigation for child sexual abuse allegations before taking his own life. Jarrett Booker, 37, Pastor of Students and Worship at Nashua Baptist Church, took his own life on November 27th, according to the church.
In a note online, signed by elders and deacons, church officials said they became "aware of a criminal investigation concerning credible allegations of sexual abuse against minors." They said Booker "had been an integral part" of the church, serving for nearly a decade.
On November 25th, Booker was fired, and the congregation was informed of the decision the next day. Booker's Facebook page said he attended Liberty University and was the former youth pastor of the Childrey Baptist Church in Nathalie, Virginia.
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Re: Pastors Kills Himself Amid Child Sex Abuse Investigation
This Conservative pedo is obviously a coward, but probably for the best he rage-quit life, saves the families from having to go through the trial and reliving their nightmare.
Nov 18th, 2023 01:13 AM
