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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Youth Pastor Watch HIV-Positive Youth Pastor Allegedly Lured "Child" Using Circa-2006 Internet Tactics

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:21 PM

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten

I can't believe people seriously still try this:

An HIV positive youth pastor at a church in Courtice is accused of luring a 15-year-old boy online and attempting to meet the youngster for “a sexual encounter.”

Durham Regional Police claim the 42-year-old Newcastle man, who allegedly used collegetoy2033 as his profile name, befriended the teen online not knowing the boy was actually an undercover Internet Child Exploitation unit officer.

“Investigators met the accused at the prearranged location and after being taken into custody, it was determined (he) is a youth pastor with the (Trulls Road) Free Methodist Church in Courtice, Ontario, and has travelled extensively over the last decade,” Det. Randy Norton said Friday.

However, he was quick to point out “this luring incident is in no way connected to the church.”

Even in the heyday of To Catch a Predator, the Internet-child-luring scare was hugely overblown. Yet, allegedly, this still happens. At least in Canada.

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heck, just ask the Catholic Church about Oregon ...

Oh, wait, too soon?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM

I think child-luring has evolved into a closed-loop system between would-be pedos and undercover agents. They exist to give each other something to do. It's rather symbiotic really.

Posted by thatsnotright on August 14, 2012 at 3:51 PM

I get that it adds a level of extra danger, but is there some reason we needed to know his HIV status for this story?

Posted by MacCrocodile

on August 14, 2012 at 4:29 PM

In no way connected to the church? But he was a youth pastor there. That's the connection!

It's funny because if a Muslim imam commits a crime most of your stalwart Christians have no trouble seeing the connection.

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on August 14, 2012 at 4:34 PM

Sir, why don't you have a seat?

I miss "To Catch a Predator," even though they still show reruns on MSNBC. It was comedy gold!

Posted by Gern Blanston on August 14, 2012 at 4:46 PM

@5) "I made some sweet tea & baked some cookies, help yourself, I just have to put the clothes in the dryer."

Posted by TampaDink on August 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM

@ 5...me too! Wish they would do more!

Posted by julie russell

on August 14, 2012 at 5:43 PM

Well, Unpaid Intern, I'm not sure how overblown the problem might be, but these kinds of stings are an easy way for law enforcement to rake in those who would molest kids. You'd think that it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to avoid these traps, but you'd be wrong, as this story reports: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/…

These stings are still being staged over and over again, and the perp's keep showing up. I'm going to have to say that in this incidence you have earned your salary, Unpaid Intern.

Posted by PaulBarwick on August 14, 2012 at 5:43 PM

Never forget that the church recycles these guys worldwide. Any world church.

Easiest way to ignore the problem - send them on a mission.

AKA avoiding the long arm of the law.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 14, 2012 at 5:49 PM

As Robin Sparkles said, Canada is 8 years behind in pop culture

Posted by Chilliwack is still a mystery on August 14, 2012 at 10:36 PM

Beneath their polite, prim & proper exteriors, Canadians are weird!

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