"Family Values" Conservative Sex Scandals: III

A Craighead County pastor accused of sexual assault will spend the next decade behind bars. Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge Scott Ellington sentenced 58-year-old Anthony Lee Strickland of Bono after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual assault. He was charged November 16, 2021 with one count of rape and one count of sexual assault in the second degree involving two girls whose parents attended his church.

After turning 18, the older girl told her parents that when she spent the night with Strickland, he watched a movie with her. She said Strickland began rubbing her genitals and asked her if it felt good. After the girls' mother was made aware of the allegations, she sat down with her other children and asked them to tell her and her husband if anyone had touched them inappropriately and not be afraid to tell them.

The older girl briefly told her siblings her story, then her then-11-year-old sister broke down crying and said, "Momma, he did that to me too," the affidavit states. That child would have been between 5 and 7 years of age at the time.

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These are all just the pastors who were caught. I wonder what percentage to youth pastors are actually there in good faith, because this is obviously not just a bad trend. If trolls spam this thread into deletion a dozen more times, then the "Family Values" Conservative Sex Scandals: XV thread will be filling up with these articles.

There are youth pastors in this thread too.

U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Brian Patrick Werth, 40, of Beltsville, Maryland to 37 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for two counts of producing child sexual abuse material.

Erek L. Barron, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Special Agent in Charge Michael S. McCarthy, Homeland Security Investigations.

Werth was convicted of coercing and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and engaging with a minor as a registered sex offender.

Upon his release from prison, Werth is required to register as a sex offender where he resides, is employed, and where he is a student under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.

Judge Chuang also ordered Werth to refrain from contact with children under 18 years old, without prior permission, and to submit to computer monitoring.

After a three-day trial, a jury found that from January 2021 through June 2021, Werth communicated with minor females, ages 11 and 15, through internet-based applications WhatsApp and Kik.

During these interactions, Werth persuaded, coerced, and enticed the minor females to engage in sexually explicit conduct by producing sexually explicit videos of themselves.

Additionally, Werth engaged in child sexual abuse as a member of the Maryland Sex Offender Registry for a previous sex offense conviction.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
It is really interesting that all of the right-wing cowards left the site after January 6, and largely stayed gone for the majority of the Biden administration, and when Trump won on November 5, many of them came creeping out of the woodwork to be trolls.

...but then something halted their triumphant campaign. Wonder what happened? Weird 🙂

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
...but then something halted their triumphant campaign. Wonder what happened? Weird 🙂

They cannot form Voltron when three of the five Lions are pedophiles.

I'm sure that was just some coincidences 🙂

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
They cannot form Voltron when three of the five Lions are pedophiles.

Probably not just three.

Discord is also known to be a pedo playground, since so many kids use it.

Just a whole mess of coincidences, then 🙂

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A New Orleans priest who pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping has been sentenced to life in prison. Lawrence Hecker, 93, was sentenced Wednesday, just weeks after he entered his plea, moments before jury selection was slated to begin in his trial

He does not have the eligibility for parole. District Attorney Jason Williams wants Hecker to serve his life sentence at Angola. It is unclear at this time what prison he will be sent to.

Three people who say they were molested by Hecker were in court during the sentencing hearing Wednesday. Three of those victims took the stand to give impact statements. The first person, Aaron Hebert, called Hecker "Satan in priest's clothing."

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A New Orleans priest who pleaded guilty to rape and kidnapping has died at 93, according to his attorney, Bobby Hjortsberg.

Lawrence Hecker was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday, December 18th after pleading guilty to aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature, first-degree rape, and theft.

He died at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center on December 26th.

Merry Christmas.

The scumbag died a week into his sentence.

A Valley pastor is behind bars tonight accused of recording women in the church bathroom. The church, Casa de Adoracion, is located near 27th Avenue and McDowell. A woman said it fell out of a dryer while she was changing her baby's diaper.

Detectives obtained a screenshot showing Pastor Arturo Laguna fixing the camera in the bathroom. And when police interviewed Laguna, they say he admitted putting up the camera in October.

Detectives scanned the camera's SD card and say they found four short videos of adult females using the bathroom. Laguna is in jail tonight facing four charges of unlawful recording. His next court date is set for January 8th.

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Originally posted by Adam_PoE
A minister was arraigned Monday afternoon in Lenawee district court on two criminal sexual conduct charges following his arrest Saturday.

The second-degree felony charges against Michael Ronald Goble filed in 2A District Court specify victims younger than age 13 and that the specific offenses occurred in November of 2021, court records show.

But a statement from Adrian police said more charges are likely forthcoming, with potential locations of significance including the Maurice Spears Juvenile Campus, Church of the Good Shepherd, and Mr. Goble's home.

Police indicate there are more victims.

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A retired Adrian pastor accused of molesting boys has been charged with a new offense and will be appointed a new attorney. Michael Ronald Goble, 76, already faced four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person younger than 13 and two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a detained juvenile.

He was arrested in July after Adrian police investigated a report by a 12-year-old boy that Goble had molested him while he was at Goble's home to help with yard work in late June. While investigating the initial report, officers were told the boy's older brother had a similar experience with Goble in 2022.

When Goble was arrested, Adrian police and the Lenawee County Sheriff's Office reported that they suspected there may be more victims and "locations of significance" may include the campus, the Church of the Good Shepherd in Adrian, and Goble's home.

A Kentucky worship leader associated with Ken Ham's Creation Museum in northern Kentucky is in jail after confessing to sexually abusing a teenager for several years, the Boone County Sheriff's Office said.

Howard is listed on social media as part of TrueSong, the resident artist of the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, founded by Answers in Genesis CEO Ken Ham. The sheriff's office said Howard and the victim also attended the same church.

Social media sites show Howard attended Florence Baptist Temple in Burlington, Kentucky where he served on the worship team. When contacted and asked if Howard was still affiliated with the church's worship team, a church official declined to comment.

Howard is facing dozens of charges, including sexual abuse and sodomy. According to the Boone County Sheriff's Office, a victim reported in late December that he had been sexually abused for several years by an adult male.

Michael Howard, 36, of Burlington sent text messages of a sexual nature to the victim in the spring of 2020, before multiple occasions of sexual abuse and sodomy began. The sheriff's office said the victim, who was a minor when the abuse began, worked for Howard starting in the fall of 2019.

Howard was arrested on Thursday. He is facing 40 counts of sexual abuse and 40 counts of sodomy. Howard was taken to the Boone County Jail and held on a $250,000 bond.

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Are they any who are not pedos or sexual predators?

i asked the same question. if clowns raped children one tenth as much as youth pastors do, the circus would have been banned long ago

They are too busy trying to ban drag performances.

A church leader in Okaloosa County, Florida has been arrested and is facing several counts of possession of child pornography after a months-long investigation. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a tip back in May 2024.

Information obtained from the tip and other findings ultimately led law enforcement to a home on 8th Street in Shalimar, owned by 64-year-old Frank Gough II. Gough has served since 2010 as Friar of Resurrection Anglican Church, also in Shalimar.

During the search, law enforcement located and seized multiple computer storage devices found in a desk drawer in Gough's bedroom. Forensic analysis of those devices found them to hold more than 100 files of child porn, "including video of a young female who appears to be between three and five years old."

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An Oxnard priest was sentenced Thursday to a year in jail in connection with sex offenses against two youths in Los Angeles County but avoided state prison, officials said.

Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara pleaded no contest to sodomy with a person under age 16 and a lewd act with a child age 14 or 15, according to court records. The first offense applies when the perpetrator is over age 21 and the second if the perpetrator is at least 10 years older than the child.

The 39-year-old man will serve the jail term concurrently with a December 9th one-year sentence in Ventura County for possession of child pornography. He was sentenced to a suspended prison term of two years in Ventura County and required to register as a sex offender for at least 10 years.

I originally reported on the child pornography charges in the previously deleted version of this thread.