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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Youth Pastor Watch

posted by on December 18 at 11:42 AM

Indiana:

With good-time credit and an appellate court order, a former youth pastor convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting young boys in his care will be out of prison shortly.

The former youth pastor at Good Shepherd United Brethren Church in Huntington, Mark Kline, 44, pleaded guilty in 1997 to 22 charges, including child molesting. Some of the assaults occurred at an apartment on church property where Kline lived. He admitted befriending boys, drugging them and performing sex acts on them without their knowledge on numerous occasions between 1993 and 1997.

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1

Nice...Humbert Humbert is getting out of jail!

Posted by Tlazolteotl | December 18, 2007 11:53 AM
2

Isn't it enough that he already served 10 years in prison? Why continue punishing him? The guy was a creep, obviously, but enough is enough.

Posted by parsonbrown | December 18, 2007 12:04 PM
3

Ah, Huntington. My neighbor to the north and the birthplace of Vice President Dan Quayle!

Posted by Michigan Matt | December 18, 2007 12:12 PM
4

getting high with your youth pastor and fooling around on church property? Sounds hot. Where is the crime, really?

Posted by Mike in MO | December 18, 2007 12:13 PM
5

Bet he can't wait to get out and use some of that "good time credit". Heh. Heh heh. Heh heh heh. Heh heh. Heh.

Posted by Wowza | December 18, 2007 12:18 PM
6

@2 - Not to sound cliche, but tell that to his victims. Anyone who drugs and rapes little boys (from a position of trust, at that!) deserves to have the proverbial book thrown at them. Scumbags like this guy should be castrated - sorry, you used your dick to commit horrible crimes, now you lose your penis priveleges.

Posted by Hernandez | December 18, 2007 12:24 PM
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@4: Well, I think doing drugs with a minor is also against the law, but I don't think that's what happened here. From what the article says, it sounds like he might've slipped a date-rape drug into their drink and raped them after they passed out.

Posted by Anna | December 18, 2007 2:44 PM
8

Thanks for 'splaining. It was a joke, but whatever...

Posted by Mike in MO | December 19, 2007 7:02 AM

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