Dallas Pastor Tyrone Gordon Church Sex Scandal Claims Total of Six Alleged Victims
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Here's how the two new victims' stories go according the the suits filed:
First of two lawsuits:
Anthony Bollin says he became a member of the church in 1996, and was active in the male chorus and adult Sunday school. He looked up to Gordon, considered him a mentor and spiritual counselor — especially during the early days of November 2010, when Bollin says he was going through a “rocky period.” According to the suit, Gordon said he’d like to hang out with Bollin and began texting him, initially with “uplifting scriptures and motivational messages encouraging Bollin during his difficult time.” As far as Bollin was concerned, theirs was a “pastoral relationship.”But it was on November 10, 2010 when Bollin's cell phone was disconnected because he had not paid the bill. Pastor Gordon offered to pay the costs of the bill, but only for a 'favor'. Bollin stated the pastor replied: “What are you going to do for me since I did this favor for you?”
The suit alleges Gordon gave Bollin money on more than one occasion as well as asking for favors in return.
The suit says that on November 16, 2010, those spiritually uplifting texts were no longer spiritual in nature: One, says the suit, featured “four sexually explicit pictures of women.”
Bollin alleges that Gordon offered him a job as a bodyguard (sounds like a Eddie Long move) and promised him trips to Los Angeles and Atlanta. At that point, the suit alleges, the texts got far more graphic. Finally, says the suit, Bollin asked Gordon if he were gay, to which Gordon replied that he might be. Bollin says he knew then what the pastor wanted: “some type of sexual relationship.” So he severed all ties with the church and “became deeply depressed and disillusioned.”The second of two suits:
Christoper Mosley says he went to work for the church in 2006 as a sexton under the supervision of Evelyn Kelly, the church’s director of operations. And he, like Bollin, had financial problems he brought to Gordon’s attention in the hopes a little counseling would steer him through the rough patch.
The suit says Gordon offered to help pay Mosley’s bills, but that each offer came with an invitation to lunch. Mosley refused each one. Finally, he alleges, Gordon asked him, “Are you afraid to go to lunch with your pastor?”
But, eventually, the pastor was able to spend some alone time with Mosley — during an ’06 mission trip to New Orleans, where they, along with other staffers and parishioners, had gone to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina. That, Mosley says, is where they finally shared a meal — and a few drinks on Bourbon Street. There, says the suit, Gordon took Mosley “to the area where there were nude women in the windows, where Gordon said, ‘You didn’t know your pastor has it like that.’” Gordon bought Mosley a six-pack of Bud Lite to take back to the hotel; the pastor got himself something a little stronger at the liquor store.The pastor and Mosley returned to the hotel and Mosley was asked up to his suite. While the pastor answered the door in his underwear, he proceeded to rub his legs seductively while he showed Mosley pornographic photos on his church laptop.
Things came to a halt when Mosley received a phone call from his girlfriend and left. The pastor made sure to assure him first that if he told anyone about this, no one would believe him. 'What happens in New Orleans, stays in New Orleans', Pastor Gordon told the young man.
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