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Friday, April 18, 2008

Youth Pastor Watch

posted by on April 18 at 9:15 AM

California:

Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Marilyn Miles held up charges of lewd behavior with a minor against accused child molester Andrew Belant Wednesday, but told the district attorney that the evidence didn’t support felony charges of sexual assault on the dates outlined in the complaint….

Belant, 25, was a youth pastor at the Eureka First Presbyterian Church and an after school aide at Jacoby Creek School. He was arrested in March and charged with two counts of molesting a child under 14 years old, and was later charged with 15 additional counts stemming from alleged acts with a total of four children. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Michigan:

For several hours, Calhoun County Circuit Court jurors heard explicit testimony from transcripts which prosecutors allege were from conversations between Troy Deal, 35, of Battle Creek, and people he believed were 14-year-old girls. The girls were actually undercover officers from the Office of the Michigan Attorney General and the Wayne County Sheriff Department.

Over several months before he was arrested in July, Deal allegedly used his computer to suggest performing various acts with the young girls, including threesome sex, bondage and submission.

Deal, at the time of his July arrest, was the director of youth ministries at Chapel Hill United Methodist Church in Battle Creek.

Lincolnshire, England:

A mentally ill man who set fire to a block of flats has been jailed for three years. Peter Nottage (28) torched a block of flats in Gainsborough because he thought it would help him get rehoused, Lincoln Crown Court heard…. When interviewed by police he admitted arson which recklessly endangered life.

A psychiatric report described Nottage as a vulnerable person who had started the fire in an emotional outburst. He was supported in court by YMCA staff and residents and the court was told that he wants to become a youth pastor with the Christian charity.

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You've hit close to home Dan...literally. That Chapel Hill Church in Battle Creek, MI...RIGHT next door to my parent's house.

Bizarre.

Posted by thaumaturgistguy | April 18, 2008 9:49 AM
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Now, after that brief unauthorized pause, a return to entertainment by the savage warmongers at The Stranger.

Posted by Dan the savage warmonger | April 18, 2008 11:10 AM

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