"Groomer" Hate Speak and the usual suspects! Fascinating.

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A Colorado man will spend 10 years in prison and 5 years on extended supervision for sexually assaulting a child while working as a youth pastor in 2003.

James Lane, 53, pleaded guilty to the charge in April and was convicted as a result. Attorney General Josh Kaul and Wood County District Attorney Jonathan Barnett said the case was reported through the Wisconsin Department of Justice Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse Initiative.

"As this conviction shows, the Clergy and Faith Leader Abuse Initiative is continuing to have an impact," Kaul previously said. "Thank you to the courageous survivor whose decision to make a report has led to accountability for the defendant."

Lane was a youth pastor at Faith Reformed Church in Wisconsin Rapids and had been living in Colorado. Lane admitted to assaulting the victim in his vehicle when he was driving the victim home.

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An associate pastor at Midland Baptist Church and deacon at Coleman's Grace Baptist Church was sentenced to serve up to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing two of his daughters.

A jury found Scott Haught, 54, of Saginaw guilty of nine felony criminal sexual conduct charges after a two-and-a-half-day trial in March. He was sentenced Thursday, June 5th in Midland County's 42nd Circuit Court.

Midland County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Atea Duso, who tried the case, said Haught had the opportunity to plead guilty to two second-degree CSC charges and serve four years in prison, with the remaining charges dismissed.

Haught opted to go to trial and rejected the plea offer on February 27th.

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A Burlington County deacon is facing multiple charges for having sex with a child multiple times.

On Friday, police announced the arrest of 44-year-old Shawn Tracey of Mount Holly.

Detectives say Tracey had sex with a girl under the age of 13 over a two-year period at multiple locations in Burlington County.

Tracey was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault, 13 counts of debauching the morals of a child, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of showing obscene material to a minor.

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In June 2024, then 39-year-old Ryan McElrath, a youth pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Jackson, was booked into the Madison County jail on charges involving inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor.

In February 2025, McElrath pled guilty to "use of a facility and means of interstate commerce to persuade, induce, or entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual acts." The plea agreement includes that McElrath will be placed on the national sex offender registry.

On June 6th 2025, McElrath was sentenced at the U.S. District Court in Jackson to 252 months (21 years) in federal custody and five years supervised release. He was also ordered to pay over $8,000 in restitution.

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A Clay County teacher is in jail Thursday night for trying to meet a child for sex. Deputies arrested 35-year-old Joshua Dice on Wednesday.

He was immediately removed from his positions at both Calvary Baptist Church and Calvary Christian Academy in Middleburg. According to investigators, Dice is facing felony charges for using a computer to solicit a child and traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual conduct.

[b]This is the second teacher from the school arrested in the last three years. In 2022, Caitlin Crum was charged with having a sexual relationship with a 9th-grade student and recording it on the student's phone. Crum is now on sex offender probation.

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On June 25th, the Marshall County Sheriff's Office was contacted by the family of an 11-year-old girl, reporting that the pastor of their church had requested she send him photos of her body.

According to MCSO, the following investigation identified the suspect as Pastor Clarence Barry Hungerford. Hungerford was subsequently arrested, admitting both that he had contacted the girl and that he had destroyed his cellphone to try to prevent the contents of the phone from being accessed.

Hungerford was charged with tampering with physical evidence and unlawful use of electronic means within the Commonwealth to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited activities.

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A Cumberland County man convicted of sexually molesting a 9-year-old girl in a McDonald's will spend less than a year in prison, per a sentence handed down Tuesday afternoon.

A judge sentenced Roy Andrews, 77, to four months to a year in prison for touching a 9-year-old girl's genitals in April 2024 while they sat in a McDonald's in Upper Allen Township.

Two weeks later, when police showed up to arrest him, Andrews tried to run away into his home but police tackled him in his kitchen. Police later found a suicide note and a gun near where Andrews had tried to run.

Andrews helped found a Hispanic church in Harrisburg called "Iglesia la Fuente" where he was a youth group leader from 2014 to 2022. After the church closed, Andrews began transporting Harrisburg children to a church in Mechanicsburg.

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Happy Home Baptist Church in Nakina, North Carolina is now reeling after their recently hired pastor was arrested Saturday for grabbing the private parts of a 13-year-old middle school student.

Their pastor, Devin Carroll, 22, was arrested and charged on Saturday with third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 16.

He is accused of grabbing the child on May 29th in the "private parts in a lewd and lascivious manner with the intent of arousal" at Conway Middle School.

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Juan Carlos Garcia, associate pastor at St. Philip Catholic Church in Franklin, pleaded guilty Monday in Williamson County Court to charges stemming from a 2024 indictment on multiple counts of sexual misconduct involving both minors and adults.

Garcia entered a plea to all the original charges. In making the plea, Garcia admitted his guilt, was sentenced to seven years at 100% in state prison, and will be listed on the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry. He also agreed not to contest laicization from the priesthood.

The charges, filed in February 2024, included one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child, one count of aggravated sexual battery, four counts of sexual battery by an authority figure, and two counts of sexual battery.

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A Gambrills man, who served as a pastor and worked as a teacher at a Christian school, has been arrested and charged with child sex abuse offenses.

William Jones, 58, faces more than 20 charges, including felony sex abuse of a minor, third-degree sex offense, and multiple counts of second-degree assault.

On May 1st, Anne Arundel County Police Officers responded to Elvaton Christian Academy in Millersville for a report of a sex offense complaint. Authorities met with the mother of a student who reported inappropriate sexual behavior by a teacher. While they were on scene, police met with another parent who reported similar inappropriate sexual behavior towards her child.

The investigation uncovered that Jones, who was the Pastor of Jessup Baptist Church in Jessup and a teacher at Elvaton Christian Academy from 2020 to 2025, was the suspect of the abuse.

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Bond was set at $360,000 for Fort Pierce Commissioner James Taylor during his first appearance at the St. Lucie County Courthouse on Friday.

Taylor is facing 24 felony counts related to a multistate investigation of child exploitation.

In court, the judge read out charges, including six counts each of transmission of material harmful to a minor by electronic equipment, transfer or display of obscenity to a minor, and harmful communication to a minor; four counts of lewd computer solicitation of a child; and two counts of solicitation of transmission of child pornography by electronic device or equipment.

They said it started when an Illinois police department was notified by a mother about her 13-year-old girl receiving Snapchats from a man.

Officials there said the girl was only 12 years old when the conversations began and that they grew increasingly sexually explicit.

They said the suspect eventually sent nude photos of himself, in which they traced the Snapchat back to St. Lucie County and notified the sheriff's office.

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A 61-year-old Mesa pastor was accused of molesting a 16-year-old member of the church who was meeting with him to help her grieve the recent loss of her brother. Stanley Jay was arrested July 23rd and ordered held on a $200,000 bond.

The pastor's wife sent an electronic message in late May to members of Worship Life Center Church that said Jay was stepping down from the church, according to court documents. The wife told a member of the church that there were explicit text messages between the pastor and the 16-year-old victim, the documents say.

The victim and her family were described in court documents as being friends with the pastor and his family. The victim and her mother had been "very involved" with Worship Life Center Church for several years, the document says.

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