Religion Youth Pastor Watch
posted by June 10 at 11:31 AM
onEpiscopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr.’s church trial on the ground that he long ago concealed his brother’s sexual abuse of a teenage girl ended its first day with the victim recounting how she had hoped Bennison would report the abuse to her parents and put an end to it.“I wanted out,” the woman, now 50, told the special Court for the Trial of a Bishop yesterday in Center City. “I wanted someone to help me.”
But Bennison, who was then rector of her parish in Upland, Calif., remained silent, she said, adding that there was “no doubt in my mind he knew” that his brother, John Bennison, the church’s youth minister, was having sex with her.
She described how twice, when she was 15, Charles Bennison had walked in on them and found them disheveled and breathless, with John Bennison visibly aroused on one occasion.
Ex-youth minister sentenced Apologizing for his actions in a case where he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, Nathan St. Pierre told a judge on Monday that he stood before the court “broken and contrite.”On Monday, Vanderburgh Circuit Court Judge Carl Heldt sentenced St. Pierre, 26, to seven years in the Indiana Department of Correction, to be followed by 10 years as a registered sex offender…. He was accused of having a sexual relationship with a girl who was a member of Washington Avenue Baptist Church, where he worked as a youth choir director.
Had the case gone to trial, it would have involved the word of a former youth minister against a 15-year-old girl he counseled who claimed he molested her. In the end, Jeremy Patrick Gable, 31, reached a plea deal with prosecutors that kept him out of prison and allowed his accuser to avoid the ordeal of testifying at trial. Gable was originally charged with sexual battery in the April 2006 incident, but pleaded no contest to a charge of child abuse instead and was sentenced by Circuit Judge Gary Sweet to five years of probation. “I’m still claiming my innocence,” Gable said, adding the plea was in his best interest. He could have faced up to five years in prison on the charge.Gable, who worked at First Baptist Church of Port St. Lucie and counseled the girl at her mother’s request, was accused of inappropriately touching the girl while they were painting his office at the church on Northeast Solida Drive. The girl claimed he also propositioned her for oral sex.
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So... mug shots, kids. It's more work, but is it worth it?
@1 -- Hellz yeah!!! Indiana perverts are The Hotness!!!
I think it's good to know what these creeps look like.
@2 You know I was thinking that too, but then I thought it's wrong of me to think that guy is good looking, isn't it? Now I'm just confused.
Can we get shots of them in their frocks and heavenly garb?
yes, Dan ... please keep includin' the mug shots for these wack-jobs.
They don't resemble pit bulls in the slightest. What gives?
Based on his pic, if I was a 14-year-old girl, I'd fuck Nathan St. Pierre. And I say that as a straight man.
(sidenote: Do I win the insensitivity award for the day?)
is the indiana guy kirk cameron?
Please try to understand that the horror of being abused is not diminished one iota by an independent assessment of the abuser's relative hotness.
Dan, please continue to post the mugshots if you have them.
Love the mugshots. Perverts, rapists, and molesters do not look like Chester the Molester; they look like your brother, father, son, uncle, nephew.
the middle one is totally the hotness! no guilt here! molest ME bitch.
Mugshots are awesome. And the second guy isn't "teh hotness", especially with the skeezy highlights in his hair. Actually, both mugshots feature bad hair choices. Bleach: it's a privilege, not a right, assclowns.
@8 & 13 Youre too old for him.
Dan,
check out pastor White's (previous youth pastor post) web site bio. especially that last paragraph.
http://www.valleychurch.com/aboutus/staff.html
Nathan St. Pierre sure gotta perty mouth. His fellow inmates will be pleased.
Mugshots for the win! Seriously Dan, it is TOTALLY worth it. Gives the post more "pop" and "zazz," as the kids are saying these days.
Nathan St Pierre HAS to be a innocent. There's no way that poof has ever been near a vagina.
Thus ensuring the continuation of this feature: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080611/NEWS/806110452
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