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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Youth Pastor Watch

posted by on November 20 at 9:51 AM

Colorado:

A man accused of sexually assaulting a child he met at church in Longmont—a case that resulted in a deadlocked jury last week—was arrested over the weekend at a Lafayette church.

Officers pulled Peter Kim, 40, over just before 7 p.m. Saturday on South Boulder Road as he left Flatirons Community Church. The Longmont man was arrested on suspicion of violating the terms of his bond by being around minors other than his own children…. Lafayette police Cmdr. Mark Battersby said dispatchers got a call from an attorney about Kim being in the church service, at 400 South Boulder Road, sitting next to children.

Kim is expected to be tried again in April following last week’s mistrial in Boulder County District Court. He is charged with sexual assault on a child by someone in position of trust after prosecutors say he had a sexual relationship between January 2001 and January 2004 with a minor he met at Longmont’s Central Presbyterian Church, where he was a youth pastor.

Kim has a previous misdemeanor conviction for havinga relationship with a teen he met while working with children at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church about 10 years ago.

One day a vegetarian youth pastor is going to molest an underage pit bull on a Metro bus full of people in wheelchairs driving over the Alaskan Way Viaduct during a wind storm that knocks Greg Nickels off his fixed-gear bicycle and sends “notice of proposed land use action” signs flying off recently-announced condo conversions all over town and then we’ll be able to call it quits here at Slog. Until that story breaks…

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1

You forgot to work in a fixed-gear bike, Mayor Nickels, and condo conversions.

Posted by Greg | November 20, 2007 10:32 AM
2

Done.

Posted by Dan Savage | November 20, 2007 10:45 AM
3

Yeah, what ever happened with that Viaduct business? ECB has been neglecting that story lately. You keeping her too busy on the Amanda Knox and Frito Pie beat?

Posted by gillsans | November 20, 2007 11:07 AM
4

I think it would have to be a vegetarian youth pastor, too.

Posted by Levislade | November 20, 2007 11:07 AM
5

@3: They got an indefinite delay, which is usually the goal in Seattle transportation politics.

Posted by Orv | November 20, 2007 11:16 AM
6

I want to know why "his own children" weren't being protected from him as well.

Posted by Carollani | November 20, 2007 11:34 AM
7

Vegetarian--done.

Posted by Dan Savage | November 20, 2007 11:36 AM
8

You can only call it quits if Charles Mudede is present to telepathically ascertain what everyone is thinking about black people during the event.

Posted by mattymatt | November 20, 2007 12:13 PM
9

So in that case would we call the pastor a "tofu packer"?

Posted by Josh | November 21, 2007 1:35 AM

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