Catholic Priest Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking Charges
A priest will be headed to prison after taking a minor from South Carolina to Florida with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, according to the Attorney General's Office.
Father Jamie Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias, 68, of Laurens pleaded guilty in federal court to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Authorities say Gonzalez-Farias admitted that he took a minor victim from South Carolina to Florida with the intent to commit lewd and lascivious molestation.
U.S. Judge Mary Geiger Lewis accepted the guilty plea and will sentence Gonzalez-Farias after receiving and reviewing a sentencing report. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum penalty of life in prison, plus fines and restitution.
Naked Pastor Arrested Masturbating Outside Walmart
Someone summoned the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department to the Somers Walmart early Thursday morning, August 10th. The person saw a fully-naked white male standing next to a black truck who appeared to be masturbating.
According to Kenosha County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Ryan Markowski, 57-year-old Thomas Bartmer was seen by responding deputies quickly getting into the truck, while still naked. Bartmer reportedly admitted to the act. Bartmer is a pastor at Lighthouse Church in Antioch, Illinois.
A youth pastor at a Fowler church is headed to jail for just under two months after pleading guilty to lesser charges connected to the sexual assault of a child.
An investigation into 46-year-old Gabe Geringer began in 2018 when a victim came forward. According to the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office, Geringer was originally charged with felony sexual assault on a child and a pattern of sexual assault on a child in connection to a sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl that began in 2010.
Investigators said Geringer was the girls' youth pastor at Fowler Christian Church.
Sunday School Teacher Gets 50 Years for Molestation
A Jonesville man who fled to the Philippines to avoid prosecution on dozens of child sex abuse charges last summer has been sentenced to 50 years in federal prison. The Hillsdale County Prosecutor's Office turned over a number of criminal allegations to the U.S. District Court when it was discovered Tye Braxton Stiger, 37, fled the United States.
He was arrested in the Philippines in February and extradited to the U.S. where he eventually pleaded guilty. Stiger came under investigation in February 2022 when a victim came forward. She alleged that Stiger sexually abused her as a child between 2009 and 2015 while Stiger acted as a Sunday school teacher.
Catholic School Teacher Guilty on Child Sex Charges
A teacher at Bishop Luers High School pleaded guilty Wednesday to child seduction following allegations that he had sex with multiple students. Jordan Miller entered a guilty plea on two counts of child seduction, a Level 5 felony.
If a judge accepts Miller's guilty plea, the 33-year-old would serve four years of probation. An eight-year prison sentence would be suspended, and two Level 6 felony counts of child seduction would be dropped.
Miller gave multiple high school girls his personal phone number in 2018, leading to sexual encounters with three students, documents said. None of the victims knew about each other's relationships with Miller until the first victim was about to come forward.
The pastor of a West Side church was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child for incidents four years ago in which a girl who was then 10-years-old said he touched her improperly during a day camp that was held at the church.
Robert C. Stine, 60, of Middleton who is pastor at Midvale Baptist Church is scheduled to appear in Dane County Circuit Court on August 24th. His attorney, Chris Van Wagner, said Thursday that Stine "looks forward to the opportunity to clear his name, and denies that he did anything wrong."
State regulators revoked the license of the daycare, called Kid's Best Child Care, on June 30th, after the girl's mother reported the abuse to police on April 21st, according to a criminal complaint.
Todd Baldwin, a staff member at Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, was arrested on August 17th, 2023 for possession and distribution of explicit digital media involving juveniles, according to the San Jose Police Department.
The 43-year-old suspect paid students for the explicit images and videos. The Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force/Child Exploitation Detail which conducted the arrest also served a search warrant at Baldwin's office and his residence in Morgan Hill. He was later booked at the Santa Clara County Main Jail.
North Carolina Pastor Arrested on Child Sex Charge
A kindergarten teacher and senior pastor at a North Carolina church was arrested and charged Tuesday with a child sex crime.
The Burke County Sheriff's Office said Aaron Doyle Mirtsching, 41, of Morganton was charged with three counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor following a cyber-tip that was received from Internet Crimes Against Children.
By North Carolina law, third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor is most commonly used when someone is in possession of material that contains a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexual activity.
A pastor from New Castle who was convicted in June of charges that he solicited a minor for sex was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison.
Judge Anthony D'Apolito handed down the sentence to Jarod Mills, 36, who was convicted by a jury following a trial in June of importuning, a fifth-degree felony.
Mills was one of a dozen local men arrested in October 2020 following a sex sting by the Ohio Attorney General's Office and the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
Youth Pastor Re-Arrested 0n More Child Sex Charges
According to Burke County Sheriff's Office, Aaron Mirtsching was arrested on several counts of incident liberties with a minor. He was first arrested August 22nd after the sheriff's office say they received a cyber tip. After an investigation, a warrant was issued for three counts of exploitation of a minor. He was given a $20,000 secured bond.
The Burke County Sheriff's Office received another report on an incident involving Mirtsching on August 24th and after further investigation, another arrest warrant was issued. He was arrested on 10 counts of indecent liberties with a minor and given at $50,000 secured bond.
After his second arrest, Thrive Church released a statement saying, "Aaron has been relieved of his duties at Thrive Church–Morganton due to the charges that have been filed."
A 27-year-old church choir leader was in custody Monday on suspicion of sexual assault of a minor that took place in 2021, police reported. Rafael Valentin Magana was arrested Thursday in National City by San Diego Police on a felony warrant charging him with oral copulation and other lewd and lascivious acts with a minor.
On November 16th 2021, a 15-year-old girl attended a baby shower at the residence of a member of her church. The girl was a member of a church choir group at the Victory Outreach Church campus at 1665 Precision Park Lane in San Ysidro. The man allegedly sexually assaulted the girl inside the car. Afterwards, he drove the girl home.
A Central Georgia man is accused of trying to sell a teenage girl on the dark web. Kelly Garrett Ivey was indicted in Jasper County on August 14th. According to the arrest warrants, the crimes happened in June, and Ivey was arrested. He was denied bond on July 11th, with the judge noting in the motion that he "posed a significant danger."
The arrest report said Ivey "attempted to sell information about a 16-year-old female, home address, as well as places she regularly attends on the dark web in order for her to be abducted, assaulted, or otherwise harmed."
The website is called "Slave Bay," the indictment said, and it "featured images of unclothed women on the same page as the said ad, and in the said ad the accused did offer to sell information as to the location of a person the accused listed as a 17-year-old virgin female."
Christian School to Pay $100M for Child Sexual Abuse
Years after being starved, beaten, and subjected to various forms of torture as children, former students of the now-defunct Miracle Meadows School in Salem will receive a total of $100 million in civil lawsuit settlements. The amount includes settlements from two consolidated cases brought by dozens of former students and their families. A 2017 filing against the former non-profit Seventh Day Adventist boarding school in Harrison County resolved this month increased the total amount to approximately $100 million.
According to the lawsuits, the students suffered sexual, physical, and psychological abuse at the hands of staff and administrators while the school was in operation between 1987 and 2014. Children were shackled, confined in isolation rooms for months, and forced to live in degrading conditions. They were also starved, beaten, and deprived of medical care, the attorneys said.
Allan Kyle Jones, 48, was booked into he Baldwin County Corrections Center on Tuesday on four charges of possession of child pornography. Jones is the Pastor of Lifeway Community Church in Loxley.
Jail records indicate that Jones posted $60,000 in bond—$15,000 on each charge—and was released early Tuesday afternoon. Jones address in the jail booking is the same address as Lifeway Community Church on Thompson Road in Loxley.
According to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, deputies were tipped off by another law enforcement agency to the possibility that Jones was downloading explicit, sexual content of minors. An investigation was launched and warrants for his cell phone revealed he was in possession of this content.
According to the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, he faces four charges now, but it is expected more could come after his electronic devices are searched more thoroughly.
Re: Christian School to Pay $100M for Child Sexual Abuse
"Among the abuse alleged by the former students, who are now adults, included being chained and shackled to beds, being kept in tiny isolation rooms for long periods, routine beatings, sexual assault, starvation, and being forced to perform manual labor. The children at times were not given toilet paper, requiring them to remain in their own filth or use their clothing to clean themselves." -APnews
Jesus f**king Christ. Sounds like the script for a horror movie.
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Aug 11th, 2023 05:42 AM
