This week's Youth Pastor Watch is dedicated to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

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KENTUCKY: "The former youth minister of a Danville church was indicted Monday by a Boyle County grand jury on seven felony counts related to illegal sexual activities with minors. Bobby Cassady, 28, of 515 Tenikat St., was charged with three counts of first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, promoting a sexual performance by a minor and possession of material portraying a sexual performance by a minor... One of the unlawful transaction charges involves engaging a minor less than 16 years old in illegal sexual activity between February and May of 2011. The other two unlawful transaction charges are Class C felonies and occurred on Oct. 25, when Cassady allegedly induced a minor less than 18 years old to send him a sexually explicit video."

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NORTH CAROLINA"Benjamin Ross Hollifield, 26, of Salisbury was convicted this week in Rowan County Superior Court of seven counts of felony statutory rape/sex offense, four counts of felony indecent liberties with a minor, and one count of felony first degree sex exploitation of a minor. Judge Joseph N. Crosswhite sentenced Hollifield to a minimum of 180 months.... Hollifield, who was the youth pastor at Piedmont Baptist Church, told detectives that he began texting a young lady at his church. He stated that he knew it was inappropriate and the Holy Spirit told him to stop, but he and the young lady discussed kissing one another.... Hollifield told detectives that the first time he had sex with the young lady was at church after choir practice."

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MICHIGAN: "A former youth minister at a Clinton County church accidentally sent an inappropriate text message intended for a girl younger than 16 to his wife, according to prosecutors. That text message ultimately led to a sexual assault charge against the Lake Odessa man. Chad Allen Apsey, 37, of Lake Odessa, pleaded guilty Feb. 22 to a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.... Apsey was only charged in relation to one incident, but Clinton County Prosecuting Attorney Chuck Sherman said as part of the plea deal his office agreed not to charge him with additional incidents. He added that Aspey pleaded guilty to the most serious charge, which relates to a sex act with a minor. Apsey was working as the youth minister at Believers Christian Church in the village of Eagle, Sherman said, and the charged incident involves a member of the youth group and occurred in a church building."

Pastor Watch is back because pious shitstains like Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton want you to think trans men and women are exploiting civil rights protections to prey on children in public restrooms. Bigoted religious conservatives don't want you to think about the people who are really preying on children (pious shitstains) and where children are actually being preyed on (churches).