Victory Christian Ex-Employee Chris Denman Pleads Guilty on Sex Abuse Charges

Victory Christian Ex-Employee Chris Denman Pleads Guilty on Sex Abuse Charges A former employee of a Tulsa megachurch, Chris Denman is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. He has pleaded guilty this week in court to six sex-crime charges. Chris Denman, 20, faces up to life in prison since his entering his guilty plea. He is due back in court Dec. 12 for sentencing. In August, Denman was accused of raping the girl on the campus of Victory Christian Center. Consequently, Denman was also...

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Memoir Details Sexual Assault by Defrocked Clergy Member | AT2W

Memoir Details Sexual Assault by Defrocked Clergy Member Press Release from PRNewsWire (CHICAGO) – In a newly released memoir, Betrayed By The State: A Ward of the State Speaks Out, Illinois-based author John Bernadyn describes his struggle growing up as a youth ward of the state. “My goal is to get the word out that youth are experiencing struggles that even grown-ups are unable to cope with,” Bernadyn said. After detailing, often graphically, a troubled childhood experience with a dysfunctional home, Bernadyn spends time discussing...

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Texas Pastor Danny Kirk Murdered By Attacker with Guitar, Suspect Dies

Texas Pastor Danny Kirk Murdered By Attacker with Guitar,  Suspect Dies Report from MyFoxDFW.com Authorities say a North Texas pastor died after a man drove his car into the church and attacked the pastor with an electric guitar. The precise details of what happened are trickling in.  A man exited the wrecked vehicle and assaulted the janitor, who was outside. The secretary locked herself in a storage closet and, according to tweets from reporters covering the story, called...

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Boy Scout Sex Abuse Lists of 1,200 Suspected Child Abusers

Boy Scout Abuse Lists of 1,200 Suspected Child Abusers Forty-five people from Massachusetts are listed in the secret “perversion files” maintained by the Boy Scouts of America that were released last Thursday by an Oregon legal team ­under an order from the Oregon Supreme Court. The hometowns of Massachusetts residents listed in the Scouts’ ­ineligible volunteer files were spread across the state, from South Boston to Pittsfield. The files contained 44 names and one person listed as ­unknown. The files listed approximately 1,200 alleged...

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Boy Scout Leader and Church Daycare Worker Admits He Molested Boys in the 1970's

Boy Scout Leader and Church Daycare Worker Admits He Molested Boys in the 1970's We can clearly see how God is revealing the dirty deeds of the boy scouts organization, one by one! According to the church pastor, Rush Otey of Selywn Avenue Presbyterian Church, Thomas Menghi Jr. worked at the church's daycare starting in 2002. Just last week during an interview with the Associated Press, Menghi admitted that he molested as many as 10 boys from Troop 786 in Fayetteville in the early 1970s. As...

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Happy 3rd Birthday AT2W!

 We want to announce to you that we are celebrating our 3rd birthday month!! Hooray!! We are very excited for how God has blessed AT2W this past year and without our faithful readers, new visitors and readers- we would not be an existence. We appreciate you so much and enjoy you visiting with us everyday. When we think about when we started  on Oct 9th, 2009, we were not very clear on our purpose exactly but we finally found our true niche. We received much opposition because...

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World Changers Church Shooting: Why Aren't Some Churches Covered By the Blood of Jesus?

World Changers Church Shooting: Why Aren't Some Churches Covered By the Blood of Jesus? Do you think Pastor Creflo Dollar showed enough concern about the recently murdered church employee of his church? Well, it seems so to us in his address to the church but we just wish that the church was safe enough to avoid this. We don't understand why this huge megachurch worth millions of dollars and employs several security agents, could not safeguard this from happening?  We realize...

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Missouri Pastor Travis Smith Re-Arrested on Multiple Rape Charges

Missouri Pastor Travis Smith Re-Arrested on Multiple Rape Charges Missouri Baptist Convention officials are watching a member church whose pastor was arrested recently on sexual abuse charges a year after his previous acquittal of child molestation. Travis Smith, 42, of California, Mo., appeared for arraignment Oct. 16 in Moniteau County court. He faces charges of: forcible rape statutory rape and sexual abuse These are all alleged to have occurred in 1998, statutory rape in 1999 and...

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Detroit Pastor's Church Sued For Not Preventing His Sexual Assault on Teen Victim

Detroit Pastor's Church Sued For Not Preventing His Sexual Assault on Teen Victim A lawsuit claims officials at a Warren church should have stopped a former pastor from influencing a 15-year-old boy he later sexually assaulted. The civil suit filed against the Antioch Baptist Church and Academy in Warren also claims Christopher Settlemoir shouldn’t have been hired because officials knew about his pedophilic tendencies. According to the report and the complaint in Macomb County Court:...

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Boy Scouts and Catholic Church Parallel: Worked Together to Keep Abuse Silent?

Boy Scouts and Catholic Church Parallel: Worked Together to Keep Abuse Silent? We are totally disgusted with not only the boy scouts sexual abuse cover up but we can not believe that the Catholic church, of all denominations, would be a part of this scandal. Why must he Catholic church be a part of so much downright perversion? We all better start examining this church organization and others and their association with groups who prey on our children. Who would have known that our boys...

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Hearing For Victory Christian Center Abuse Suspect Gets Pushed Forward

Hearing For Victory Christian Center Abuse Suspect Gets Pushed Forward Report from Houston's CBS news Prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that more witnesses or victims could come forward as police examine more deeply allegations of sex crimes at a 17,000-member megachurch deep in the Bible Belt. Israel Castillo, 23, a former janitor at the Victory Christian Center, attended court for a preliminary hearing Tuesday after being accused of making a lewd proposal to a 15-year-old girl, but...

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Creflo Dollar Church Shooting: Former Employee Arrested, Found Shopping in Mall

(Floyd Palmer World Changers Church) Creflo Dollar Church Shooting: Former Employee Arrested, Found Shopping in Mall Floyd Palmer, the church shooting suspect that calmly entered the church and fatally shot a volunteer, was arrested Wednesday and pleaded guilty to shooting a man a decade ago in Baltimore and was committed to a mental health facility there. Reports from AJC stated: Floyd Palmer, 52, calmly walked into a prayer service Wednesday morning at the College Park megachurch...

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Archdiocese of Miami's Statement Reveals A Move to Action in Placing Fr. Rolando Garcia on LOA

Archdiocese of Miami's Statement Reveals A Move to Action in Placing Fr. Rolando Garcia on LOA Statement of Archdiocese of MiamiRegarding Fr. Rolando GarciaWednesday, October 24, 2012The Archdiocese of Miami has announced that Fr. Roland Garcia, pastor of St. Agatha Catholic Church, was placed on administrative leave today due to an allegation brought forth against him by Mr. Tony Simmons yesterday, October 22, 2012. The Archdiocese had no prior notice of this allegation before yesterday's...

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Victory Christian Centers Employ PR Firm to 'Manage' Allegations Sex Abuse Cover Up

Victory Christian Centers Employ PR Firm to 'Manage' Allegations Sex Abuse Cover Up The leaders of Victory Christian Center are now trying to repair some of those unfavorable decisions they made in the allegations of sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl on their church campus by alleged church employees. Five church officials are facing charges for delaying as long as two weeks to report the girl's suspected rape. Some have said that the church did what they could in this instance to...

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Creflo Dollar's World Changers Church Shooting: Church Employee Shot Dead by Former Employee

Creflo Dollar's World Changers Church Shooting: Church Employee Shot Dead by Former Employee What is going on in these megachurches? We reported last week a carjacking with a child inside the vehicle at Atlanta's New Birth Church, led by Bishop Eddie Long. Though the child and car were found unharmed, here we are again with another tragedy in a church. Read report below and then our take, of course at the bottom of the post. CNN reports that at least one person was shot Wednesday morning...

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Franciscan Priest arrested For Stealing Church Money and Running Off with Woman

Franciscan Priest arrested For Stealing Church Money and Running Off with Woman Report from Telegraph: Father Sime Nimac was arrested in a Zagreb flat after disappearing from his parish near the coastal town of Split with a huge amount of cash he had got from selling a piece of Church land without the permission of his diocese. Described by his Franciscan order as a man with "insatiable egotism", the 34-year-old clergyman has been charged with abuse of office and had his passport...

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GA Church Deacon arrested for Molesting Two Toddlers and Images of Child Porn

(Clinton Jones Rivers) GA Church Deacon arrested for Molesting Two Toddlers and Images of Child Porn St. Marys Police officers arrested Clinton Jones Rivers, a deacon at a Kingsland church, October 10 at a home on Thoroughbred Road in St. Marys on two counts of sexual exploitation of children. He's being accused of molesting a 4 year old and 7 year old. Back in July 2012, the St. Marys Police Department received a tip which said two children, ages 4 and 7, were possible victims of child...

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Scandalized Pastor Ted Haggard Should ‘Sit Down' on Same Sex Marriage Issues

Scandalized Pastor Ted Haggard Should ‘Sit Down' on Same Sex Marriage Issues Ted Haggard, the disgraced-then-revived evangelical Colorado pastor notorious for a 2006 drug and gay sex scandal that saw him booted from the pulpit of the 14,000-member church he helped found, now believes the state should legalize same-sex marriage. Read our take on the issue below! It's the truth's truth!! That’s what Haggard argued in an online debate Monday with Rabbi Benjamin Hecht, director of...

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Oklahoma's Victory Christian Center Accused of Protecting Ministry from Sex Abuse Allegations

Oklahoma's Victory Christian Center Accused of Protecting Ministry from Sex Abuse Allegations Well, we called this situation a cover up from the very beginning because it had all of the tell tale signs of one. We are glad that people see this and are doing something about it. Report below says: A national clergy abuse watchdog group blasted a Tulsa megachurch Thursday for doing "damage control" to protect the ministry's image instead of showing concern for a 13-year-old girl who was allegedly...

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Miami Priest Rolando Garcia and Others Accused of Covering Up Sexual Crimes

Miami Priest Rolando Garcia and Others Accused of Covering Up Sexual Crimes It's bad enough that many of these tainted pastors, priests, minister, etc do the unthinkable to members of the church they minister to, but to have the gall to cover up and lie about it, is just downright despicable. Here's the report: A Miami Catholic priest, Father Rolando Garcia is accused of sexual abuse is facing new allegations he tried to cover up the abuse of a boy by another priest, the alleged victim...

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Jackson Pastor Danny Hollins Takes Leave of Absence, Accused of Sex with Teen

Jackson Pastor Danny Hollins Takes Leave of Absence, Accused of Sex with Teen 16 WAPT News reports a Jackson pastor, the Reverend Danny Hollins is accused of having a relationship with an underage girl at his church. The pastors church, Greater Fairview Baptist Church leaders, said Pastor Danny Hollins has voluntarily took a temporary leave of absence. In other words, he's stepped down due to the allegations. Hollins' attorney, Precious Martin says: "My client vehemently denies all of...

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Pastor Patrick Edouard Sentenced to 5 Years For Sexual Exploitation

Pastor Patrick Edouard Sentenced to 5 Years For Sexual Exploitation Former Pella pastor Patrick Edouard was sentenced Friday morning to five years in prison after being found guilty of sexual exploitation. Edouard was convicted of four counts of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist and one count of entering into a pattern/scheme of exploitation by a therapist. He was sentenced to one year in prison on each of the exploitation counts and five years on the ongoing charge. The...

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Mobile Pastor Cederick McMillan Convicted of Sexually Abusing Teen Relative, Faces 20 Years

Mobile Pastor Cederick McMillan Convicted of Sexually Abusing Teen Relative, Faces 20 Years An Alabama jury convicted a local pastor, Cederick McMillan of sexually abusing a teenage girl. They found Cederick McMillan, 27, guilty of second-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse. McMillan is pastor of New Birth Community Church in Mobile and helped found Prichard Preparatory Academy. The authorities accused him of 'sexually touching and having oral sex with a girl when she was 14 years...

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"How Should The Church Deal with Sexual Abuse in the Church", Jamacian Writer says

< (Photo: thegleaner.com) "How Should The Church Deal with Sexual Abuse in the Church", Jamacian Writer says We think Dr Wendel Abel, writer for 'The Gleaner' a Jamaican publican, has hit the nail on the nose. In plain English, the writer has made some great and practical points for steps towards not only acknowledging sexual abuse in the church but also for the victim to find healing and trust in the church once again. Take a look at a few of the ways the church overall can deal...

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Dallas Pastor Tyrone Gordon Church Sex Scandal Claims Total of Six Alleged Victims

Dallas Pastor Tyrone Gordon Church Sex Scandal Claims Total of Six Alleged Victims Pastor Tyrone Gordon may have thought his troubles were over but he's now been hit with not one but two more lawsuits claiming sexual abuse by a clergyman. Sorry, but we are happy that more victims or 'could have been victims' are coming forward. We thank God this it! Thanks goes out to our friends at The Church Lady Blogs for the heads up! Here's how the two new victims' stories go according the the...

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Ministers of VCC's Pastor Sharon Daugherty Want Charges Dismissed

Ministers of VCC's Pastor Sharon Daugherty Want Charges Dismissed It's no surprise the ministers at Victory Christian Center, who happen to be the son and daughter-in-law of the senior pastor, would love for the judge to dismiss these horrible charges of concealing information from the authorities regarding a crime in their church! Read report below: Two Victory Christian Center youth ministers asked a judge Friday to dismiss the charges of failure to report child abuse against...

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Mobile Pastor Sentenced to 10 Years For Sexual Assault on a Teen Boy

 Mobile Pastor Sentenced to 10 Years For Sexual Assault on a Teen Boy Fox News reports: A local pastor was sentenced to a decade behind bars for sexually abusing a teenage boy. Stanley Porter was sent to prison Thursday. Porter was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy he was supposed to be mentoring said Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson. Patterson with the Mobile County District Attorney's Office said Porter sodomized the boy following a choir rehearsal at...

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Pastor Paula White's Sermon Attacks Naysayers Who Call her a 'Jezebel'

 (Photo: Google.com) Pastor Paula White's Sermon Attacks Naysayers Who Call her a 'Jezebel' Paula White came to her own defense in last Sunday's sermon behind the pulpit of the late Pastor Zachery Tim's New Destiny Christian Center. She tells the congregation she doesn't care what people say about her but took out time to call out some of the names she knows people have labelled her as: "...I hear that I'm a devil, I hear I'm a hoe, I hear I'm a Jezebel, I hear I'm an angel,...

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Pastor Schaap's Former Church First Baptist of Hammond Plan Lay Offs

Pastor Schaap's Former Church First Baptist of Hammond Plan Lay Offs The First Baptist Church of Hammond is laying off  a quarter of the church's staff, a church spokesman confirmed last week. The layoffs happen to come in the wake of a federal guilty plea by the church's former head Pastor Jack Schaap, who admitted to a sexual relationship with an underage parish girl he had been counseling. Even though church donations have remained the same, church leaders decided to include...

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ACLJ Attorney Fired After Gay Sex Allegations Exposed

(Photo: patriot-ombudsman.com)   ACLJ Attorney Fired After Gay Sex Allegations Exposed The Washington, DC-based American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has dismissed one of it's attorneys last week after allegations of gay sexual relationship swirled around the internet. Here's a statement from the ACLJ, "The employment of James Matthew Henderson, Sr. with the American Center for Law and Justice - DC ceased effective September 25, 2012. He is no longer affiliated with any ACLJ...

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Mobile Pastor Stanley Porter Sentenced to 10 Years For Sexual Assault on a Teen

 Mobile Pastor Stanley Porter Sentenced to 10 Years For Sexual Assault on a Teen Fox News reports: A local pastor was sentenced to a decade behind bars for sexually abusing a teenage boy. Stanley Porter was sent to prison Thursday. Porter was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy he was supposed to be mentoring said Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson. Patterson with the Mobile County District Attorney's Office said Porter sodomized the boy following a choir...

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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Cleared of Racial Discrimination Charges By Former Black Employee

(billy graham evangelistic association racial discrimination suit) Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Cleared of Racial Discrimination Charges By Former Black Employee Report from Christianity Today: A North Carolina federal district court has found that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) did not discriminate against Kimberly McCallum, formerly the only African-American employee in the group's Global Ministries office, in terminating her employment as an administrative...

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