Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation.
Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.
Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank's residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.
Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.
Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-election-before eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.
Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later.
Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976.
Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.
Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.
Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts senator testified in defense of nephew accused of rape, invoking his family history to win over the jury in 1991.
Mark Oaten, the former Liberal Democrat leadership challenger, dramatically quit frontline politics last night over revelations of an affair with a rent boy.
Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) On Oct. 9, 1974, Mills, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and perhaps the most powerful member of the House, was stopped for speeding near the Jefferson Memorial at 2 a.m. Shortly after, Annabella Battistella - a stripper who went by the stage-name of Fanne Foxe, the "Argentine Firecracker" - jumped out of his car and into the Potomac River tidal basin. The incident did not immediately threaten Mills, whose district was solidly Democratic. But Mills won reelection with only 59 percent of the vote, his lowest total ever. Within weeks, Mills appeared on a Boston stage carousing with Foxe, apparently intoxicated. Faced with an uprising among House Democrats, Mills was forced to resign as Ways and Means chairman, and in 1976 he announced he would not seek another term, ending his 38-year House career. He was succeeded by Jim Guy Tucker, whose own ethics got the attention of Kenneth Starr some two decades later.
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:19:57 -0400, Tim McVeigh - Republican
<mcve...@gop.org> wrote: >Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having sex with a >14-year old boy.
>Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after >allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
>Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex from 13- >year old girls.
>Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for >molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year period.
>Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14- >year old girl and killed himself three days later.
>Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after >"sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
>Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times >newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the >internet.
>Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to >molesting a 13-year old girl.
>Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges of >soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for >Denton County, Texas, constable.
>Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old >girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
>Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year >old boy.
>Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two >girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the >petition business.
>Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year- >old girl.
>Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to >sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
>Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
>Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison >for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
>Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over >the internet.
>Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two >15-year old girls.
>Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two >girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
>Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison >for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
>Republican Committeeman John R. Curtin was convicted of molesting an underage >teenage boy and sentenced to serve six to 18 months in prison.
>Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child >rapist in Florida.
>Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president >Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year old girl >he murdered.
>Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing >child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders >an abortion doctor.
>Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years >probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
>Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex >with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
>Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 >presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair >with a female juvenile.
>Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate >relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
>Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in >prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore >television commercial.
>Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the >White House during the 1980s.
>Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White >House during the 1980s.
>Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a >female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
>Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn >charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
>Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes >involving children.
>Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted >sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on the same >charge.
>Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a >congressional page.
>Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to >an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
>Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child >pornography on his home computer.
>Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with >having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
>Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a >video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
>Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into >custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an >underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
>Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12- >year old boy and possession of child pornography.
>Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12- >year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were >reported in the media. >Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, >was sentenced prison after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to >perform oral sex on him.
>Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals >to an 11 year old girl.
>Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years >in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay >couple from adopting her.
>Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his >daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
>Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years >probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
>Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree >sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican Red State Child Abuse On The Rise As More People In The South Succumb To "The Holy Cult" of Hate And Pedophilia.
The epidemic of red state conservative pedophilia extends itself to the church.
Lake Wales, FL. The pastor at the Church of the Nazarene has been charged with sexually assaulting a male 17-year-old youth leader three times in 2001. The Rev. Gene Francis, 52, of Lake Wales, was arrested Tuesday and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, 2003) Lake Wales minister arrested in sexual assault case
Tuscon, AZ. The Rev. David Valencia, 47, assistant pastor of a Pentecostal church is expected in court Wednesday on rape charges issued by Pennsylvania authorities. In Pennsylvania, Valencia was an assistant pastor at Christ Church at Grove Farm, an interdenominational church that uses Anglican liturgy. The pastor of Christ Church, the Rev. John Guest, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Valencia was dismissed in late 2001 because he was found to have pornography on an office computer after he was warned about a similar incident months earlier. (Tucson Citizen, May 31, 2003) Rev. David Valencia allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl he was counseling
Fort Pierce, FL. Pastor Kenneth Johnson, recently convicted of having sex with a minor, and Friendship Missionary Baptist Church -- where he reportedly continues to minister -- were named in a sex-abuse lawsuit filed Tuesday. Johnson, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on one count of unlawful sexual activity with a minor. He faces up to 15 years on the second-degree felony. (The Tribune, January 22, 2003) . Johnson to be sentenced Friday on 1 count of unlawful sexual activity with minor
Athens, GA. Ralph Tulk, 63, was arrested Tuesday and charged with five counts of child molestation for allegedly inappropriately touching five children at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church over several years. He was superintendent of the Sunday school program when some of the alleged molestations took place and was treasurer of the church until last month, according to police and the church. Dickerson and many other residents of this Northeast Georgia city -- most of whom were willing to share their thoughts about the case but not be quoted -- said they worry about the church, but aren't yet convinced of the allegations. "This is America, and you are innocent until proven guilty," Dickerson said. (MSNBC.com, Jan. 11, 2003) Town reacts to molestation charges
Bryan, TX. A pastor was arrested and released from jail Monday night after he was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Ford was indicted earlier this month based on an allegation he had sexually assaulted a teenage boy who went on a trip with the pastor to the Texas Panhandle more than two years ago. Ford was pastor from the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Bryan where he had served for 17 years. (Bryan-College Station Eagle, Dec. 24, 2002) pastor accused of assaulting Bryan boy arrested
Idaho Falls, ID. An area pastor is charged with inappropriately touching a teenage boy. Idaho Falls police charged a long-time religious leader with five counts of lewd conduct with a minor. 46-year-old Steven Michael Sheridan, the former pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist Church has been arrested-- this after police recorded two recent phone conversations between the victim and Sheridan. Sheridan was the pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist Church five years ago when the alleged crimes occurred. Since then, he's been pastor of another church. The victim who was 13 at the time, and is now 18, said Sheridan was like a mentor. They took trips together, and during those trips, Sheridan touched him sexually. One time, the pastor allegedly touched the boys genitals saying he was checking for cancer. (KPVI, Dec. 6, 2002) AREA PASTOR CHARGED WITH INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING A TEENAGE BOY Former Pastor Sex Abuse Case Moves Forward
Denver, CO. Denver police arrested a 26-year-old youth minister with St. John's Church of God in Christ after a 15-year-old member accused him of sexual assault.(November 15, 2002, Rocky Moutain News) Youth Paster arrested News Report
LINCOLN, NE. Three lawsuits have been filed against a Lutheran church school for alleged sexual abuse by former officials, including a minister who served as principal. The lawsuits against St. John Lutheran Church in Seward seek millions of dollars for the alleged abuse. The Lincoln Journal Star reported in Saturday's editions that two lawsuits were filed in Lancaster County District Court on Friday by unnamed plaintiffs who alleged they were abused by longtime principal David Mannigel. Mannigel, a Lutheran minister, apparently killed himself last year. (ABC News, November 2, 2002) Lutheran Church sued over abuse by Pastor Mannigel
LINCOLN, NE? Three lawsuits have been filed against a Lutheran church school for alleged sexual abuse by former officials, including a minister who served as principal. The lawsuits against St. John Lutheran Church in Seward seek millions of dollars for the alleged abuse. The other lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Lincoln on Wednesday by T. Mark Kraft, a Colorado man, for claims of abuse by retired teacher Arlen Meyer. That lawsuit seeks $1 million. (ABC News, November 2, 2002) Lutheran Church sued over abuse by Pastor Meyer
Austin, TX. A former youth minister faces up to 20 years in prison after he was convicted of nine counts of child sexual abuse. Charles Richard Willits, Jr., 44, a former youth minister at Great Hills Baptist Church, was convicted Saturday. Sentencing was scheduled for Monday. (October 18, 2002; Abilene Reporter-News) Youth Paster Convicted in Criminal Court
Lake Wales, FL. The pastor at the Church of the Nazarene has been charged with sexually assaulting a male 17-year-old youth leader three times in 2001. The Rev. Gene Francis, 52, of Lake Wales, was arrested Tuesday and charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, 2003) Lake Wales minister arrested in sexual assault case
Tuscon, AZ. The Rev. David Valencia, 47, assistant pastor of a Pentecostal church is expected in court Wednesday on rape charges issued by Pennsylvania authorities. In Pennsylvania, Valencia was an assistant pastor at Christ Church at Grove Farm, an interdenominational church that uses Anglican liturgy. The pastor of Christ Church, the Rev. John Guest, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Valencia was dismissed in late 2001 because he was found to have pornography on an office computer after he was warned about a similar incident months earlier. (Tucson Citizen, May 31, 2003) Rev. David Valencia allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl he was counseling
An associate pastor of a San Fernando Valley chapel was sentenced to 32 months in prison on Tuesday for failing to register as a sex offender. Ilger, a former second-grade teacher, was convicted in 1988 of molesting four students in his San Luis Obispo classroom. After being released from jail, Ilger and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he took a position with Hope Chapel of the Valley in Canoga Park. "We've lived and learned a painful lesson," the Rev. Jeff Fischer of Hope Chapel said outside court. Fischer has said he and about 30 church elders knew that Ilger had molested young girls before he was hired. Sentencing (Associated Press, April 3, 2003)
Marty A. Hynes, 33, is charged with eight counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor, three counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and one count of attempted criminal sexual contact of a minor. Hynes was a youth pastor at the First Assembly of God church when the alleged incidents occurred, between July and December 2001. (Las Cruces Sun-News, March 24, 2003) Trial of former youth pastor begins
Dayton, OH. A Trotwood minister, whose lawyer said he has been a "sex addict" since age 10, sought treatment rather than face trial in a Brookville police- run Internet sting that presented a virtual 14-year-old boy in a chat room. But a Montgomery County judge denied his plea for treatment Tuesday. Turner's attorney, Dwight Brannon, wrote "He had his first sexual experience with another male at the age of 19 while in college. Shortly after he began surfing the Web . . . his addiction slowly began to grow." Turner had been pastor of Anchor Community Church, 38 S. Fairgreen Drive, for seven years when he was arrested last summer. (Dayton Daily News, 01.29.2003) Minister arrested in police-run Internet sting
Riviera Beach, FL. A prominent minister, his church and deacon have reached a $600,000 settlement with a mentally disabled man who accused the minister of rape. The Rev. Thomas Masters, pastor of the New Macedonia Church of Riviera Beach, and Church Mutual, insurer for the church, negotiated the settlement with the man, according to his attorneys and court papers filed Monday. The man, who has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, attended New Macedonia and accused Masters of coercing him to smoke crack cocaine and then raping him twice on church property over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991. (The Palm Beach Post, January 14, 2003) West Palm Beach minister, church pay $600,000
Denver, CO. Denver police arrested a 26-year-old youth minister with St. John's Church of God in Christ after a 15-year-old member accused him of sexual assault. (November 15, 2002, Rocky Moutain News) Youth Paster arrested News Report
Tulsa, OK. Son Minh Rockstroh, 48, was arrested Saturday on three counts of rape by instrumentation and one count of lewd molestation of a child. He was jailed about 2 a.m. Saturday and is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail. The allegations have no apparent link to his
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To see the real truth of the matter, let us take a look at the Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005. (Go to the linked document, and under "Victims and Offenders" download the pdf file for 2005.)
In Table 42, entitled "Personal crimes of violence, 2005, percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, based on race of victims, by type of crime and perceived race of offender," we learn that there were 111,590 white victims and 36,620 black victims of rape or sexual assault in 2005. (The number of rapes is not distinguished from those of sexual assaults; it is maddening that sexual assault, an ill-defined category that covers various types of criminal acts ranging from penetration to inappropriate touching, is conflated with the more specific crime of rape.) In the 111,590 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was white, 44.5 percent of the offenders were white, and 33.6 percent of the offenders were black. In the 36,620 cases in which the victim of rape or sexual assault was black, 100 percent of the offenders were black, and 0.0 percent of the offenders were white. The table explains that 0.0 percent means that there were under 10 incidents nationally.
The table does not gives statistics for Hispanic victims and offenders. But the bottom line on interracial white/black and black/white rape is clear:
In the United States in 2005, 37,460 white females were sexually assaulted or raped by a black man, while between zero and ten black females were sexually assaulted or raped by a white man.
What this means is that every day in the United States, over one hundred white women are raped or sexually assaulted by a black man.
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:15:20 -0400, Right Wing News <mcve...@gop.org> wrote:
>Republican Red State Child Abuse On The Rise As More People In The South >Succumb To "The Holy Cult" of Hate And Pedophilia.
>The epidemic of red state conservative pedophilia extends itself to the >church.
>Lake Wales, FL. The pastor at the Church of the Nazarene has been charged >with sexually assaulting a male 17-year-old youth leader three times in 2001. >The Rev. Gene Francis, 52, of Lake Wales, was arrested Tuesday and charged >with unlawful sexual activity with a minor. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, >2003) >Lake Wales minister arrested in sexual assault case
>Tuscon, AZ. The Rev. David Valencia, 47, assistant pastor of a Pentecostal >church is expected in court Wednesday on rape charges issued by Pennsylvania >authorities. In Pennsylvania, Valencia was an assistant pastor at Christ >Church at Grove Farm, an interdenominational church that uses Anglican >liturgy. The pastor of Christ Church, the Rev. John Guest, told the >Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Valencia was dismissed in late 2001 because he >was found to have pornography on an office computer after he was warned about >a similar incident months earlier. (Tucson Citizen, May 31, 2003) >Rev. David Valencia allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl he was >counseling
>Fort Pierce, FL. Pastor Kenneth Johnson, recently convicted of having sex >with a minor, and Friendship Missionary Baptist Church -- where he reportedly >continues to minister -- were named in a sex-abuse lawsuit filed Tuesday. >Johnson, 39, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on one count of unlawful >sexual activity with a minor. He faces up to 15 years on the second-degree >felony. (The Tribune, January 22, 2003) . >Johnson to be sentenced Friday on 1 count of unlawful sexual activity with >minor
>Athens, GA. Ralph Tulk, 63, was arrested Tuesday and charged with five counts >of child molestation for allegedly inappropriately touching five children at >Holy Trinity Lutheran Church over several years. He was superintendent of the >Sunday school program when some of the alleged molestations took place and >was treasurer of the church until last month, according to police and the >church. Dickerson and many other residents of this Northeast Georgia city -- >most of whom were willing to share their thoughts about the case but not be >quoted -- said they worry about the church, but aren't yet convinced of the >allegations. "This is America, and you are innocent until proven guilty," >Dickerson said. (MSNBC.com, Jan. 11, 2003) >Town reacts to molestation charges
>Bryan, TX. A pastor was arrested and released from jail Monday night after he >was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. Ford was indicted >earlier this month based on an allegation he had sexually assaulted a teenage >boy who went on a trip with the pastor to the Texas Panhandle more than two >years ago. Ford was pastor from the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in >Bryan where he had served for 17 years. (Bryan-College Station Eagle, Dec. >24, 2002) >pastor accused of assaulting Bryan boy arrested
>Idaho Falls, ID. An area pastor is charged with inappropriately touching a >teenage boy. Idaho Falls police charged a long-time religious leader with >five counts of lewd conduct with a minor. 46-year-old Steven Michael >Sheridan, the former pastor of St. Paul's United Methodist Church has been >arrested-- this after police recorded two recent phone conversations between >the victim and Sheridan. Sheridan was the pastor of St. Paul's United >Methodist Church five years ago when the alleged crimes occurred. Since then, >he's been pastor of another church. The victim who was 13 at the time, and is >now 18, said Sheridan was like a mentor. They took trips together, and during >those trips, Sheridan touched him sexually. One time, the pastor allegedly >touched the boys genitals saying he was checking for cancer. (KPVI, Dec. 6, >2002) >AREA PASTOR CHARGED WITH INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING A TEENAGE BOY >Former Pastor Sex Abuse Case Moves Forward
>Denver, CO. Denver police arrested a 26-year-old youth minister with St. >John's Church of God in Christ after a 15-year-old member accused him of >sexual assault.(November 15, 2002, Rocky Moutain News) >Youth Paster arrested >News Report
>LINCOLN, NE. Three lawsuits have been filed against a Lutheran church school >for alleged sexual abuse by former officials, including a minister who served >as principal. The lawsuits against St. John Lutheran Church in Seward seek >millions of dollars for the alleged abuse. The Lincoln Journal Star reported >in Saturday's editions that two lawsuits were filed in Lancaster County >District Court on Friday by unnamed plaintiffs who alleged they were abused >by longtime principal David Mannigel. Mannigel, a Lutheran minister, >apparently killed himself last year. (ABC News, November 2, 2002) >Lutheran Church sued over abuse by Pastor Mannigel
>LINCOLN, NE? Three lawsuits have been filed against a Lutheran church school >for alleged sexual abuse by former officials, including a minister who served >as principal. The lawsuits against St. John Lutheran Church in Seward seek >millions of dollars for the alleged abuse. The other lawsuit was filed in >U.S. District Court in Lincoln on Wednesday by T. Mark Kraft, a Colorado man, >for claims of abuse by retired teacher Arlen Meyer. That lawsuit seeks $1 >million. (ABC News, November 2, 2002) >Lutheran Church sued over abuse by Pastor Meyer
>Austin, TX. A former youth minister faces up to 20 years in prison after he >was convicted of nine counts of child sexual abuse. Charles Richard Willits, >Jr., 44, a former youth minister at Great Hills Baptist Church, was convicted >Saturday. Sentencing was scheduled for Monday. (October 18, 2002; Abilene >Reporter-News) >Youth Paster Convicted in Criminal Court
>Lake Wales, FL. The pastor at the Church of the Nazarene has been charged with >sexually assaulting a male 17-year-old youth leader three times in 2001. The >Rev. Gene Francis, 52, of Lake Wales, was arrested Tuesday and charged with >unlawful sexual activity with a minor. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, June 4, 2003) >Lake Wales minister arrested in sexual assault case
>Tuscon, AZ. The Rev. David Valencia, 47, assistant pastor of a Pentecostal >church is expected in court Wednesday on rape charges issued by Pennsylvania >authorities. In Pennsylvania, Valencia was an assistant pastor at Christ Church >at Grove Farm, an interdenominational church that uses Anglican liturgy. The >pastor of Christ Church, the Rev. John Guest, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette >that Valencia was dismissed in late 2001 because he was found to have >pornography on an office computer after he was warned about a similar incident >months earlier. (Tucson Citizen, May 31, 2003) >Rev. David Valencia allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old girl he was counseling
>Dayton, OH. A Trotwood minister, whose lawyer said he has been a "sex addict" >since age 10, sought treatment rather than face trial in a Brookville police- >run >Internet sting that presented a virtual 14-year-old boy in a chat room. But a >Montgomery County judge denied his plea for treatment Tuesday. Turner's >attorney, Dwight Brannon, wrote "He had his first sexual experience with >another >male at the age of 19 while in college. Shortly after he began surfing the Web > his addiction slowly began to grow." Turner had been pastor of Anchor >Community Church, 38 S. Fairgreen Drive, for seven years when he was arrested >last summer. (Dayton Daily News, 01.29.2003) >Minister arrested in police-run Internet sting
>Riviera Beach, FL. A prominent minister, his church and deacon have reached a >$600,000 settlement with a mentally disabled man who accused the minister of >rape. The Rev. Thomas Masters, pastor of the New Macedonia Church of Riviera >Beach, and Church Mutual, insurer for the church, negotiated the settlement >with >the man, according to his attorneys and court papers filed Monday. The man, who