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Religion Youth Pastor Watch
Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM
A youth minister has been charged with sexual battery for making sexual advances toward two women. Byron Alston, 46, was arrested on a warrant Tuesday and charged with two counts of felony sexual battery and one count of felony criminal confinement.... According to an Indianapolis Metropolitan police report, Alston offered to give a 23-year-old woman the job she was interviewing for if she had sex with him. The woman refused and Alston then committed a lewd act in his office in front of her, the IMPD report said. In June, a 19-year-old woman alleged that Alston grabbed her and put her hand down his pants.
A sex scandal shocks a local Catholic Church. A youth minister has been arrested after having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl in his ministry. 24 year-old Brendan McConnell was arrested Monday. His alleged victim is a teenage girl under the age of 16. The two met while McConnell was a volunteer in the Life Teen Program here at Our Lady of Light Catholic Church. The Lee County Sheriff's Office is not releasing the exact age of the girl, but we do know she is between 12 to 15 year's old. McConnell's arrest report states the victim's mother found 23 pages of instant messages between McConnell and the victim. The messages were regarding sexual acts the two performed on each other.
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"A sex scandal shocks a local Catholic Church"
I laughed out loud when I read that. I hope it's just editorial flair, because no one should be shocked when stuff like this happens anymore. Angry? Sure. Saddened? Of course. But shocked? No.
I laughed out loud when I read that. I hope it's just editorial flair, because no one should be shocked when stuff like this happens anymore. Angry? Sure. Saddened? Of course. But shocked? No.
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On a related note these pedophiles give a new definition to the term "lay ministers".
http://www.kmbc.com/news/21586021/detail…
http://www.kmbc.com/news/21586021/detail…
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eh.. 24 and 16. skeeeezy? sure. evil? Depends on the situation, and to the law.. what state you're in.
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Nice twist. Good to keep us on our toes like that.
Come to think of it, why not start presenting just the photos at first and then let us vote on who the odd one out is?
Come to think of it, why not start presenting just the photos at first and then let us vote on who the odd one out is?
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Um... what is your point with the third one, are you implying that he is a pedophile? If you are you are bassicaly saying that my mom is a pedophile as well as she is also a youth paster and connects to her youth group through face book as it is the easiest way to get in contact with them and I could see here using text messages as well.
What a lot of these groups did wrong is that, unlike my denomination the UCC, they don't have mandatory safeguards to prevent situations where an adult could assault a youth. These are the same types of measures that were put in place by the BSA after it's molestation scandals. An adult shouldn't be left alone with a youth as their should be another adult or youth at all times, preferably both. Now unfortunately it isn't always the case, but a lot of these groups aren't even trying to protect the kids.
What a lot of these groups did wrong is that, unlike my denomination the UCC, they don't have mandatory safeguards to prevent situations where an adult could assault a youth. These are the same types of measures that were put in place by the BSA after it's molestation scandals. An adult shouldn't be left alone with a youth as their should be another adult or youth at all times, preferably both. Now unfortunately it isn't always the case, but a lot of these groups aren't even trying to protect the kids.
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