Tag Archives: This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days…. Delaware: 170 civil lawsuits filed in two years under the Child Victims Act, most against Catholic priests.Wisconsin: Rev. Michael Hylton resigns after admitting bigamy. Hylton accepted numerous wedding gifts from his congregation without revealing he never divorced his first wife.Ohio: Statewide Faith-Based and Community Initiative director Robert E. McFadden admits pimping a 16 year-old girl …

Over the last seven days… Uruguay: Bishop Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira resigns after being blackmailed for hiring male prostitutes. The Vatican has accepted his resignation.Louisiana: Pastor Keith Bertrand Cowart charged with bank fraud for charging $74K to credit cards he had opened in the name of his church.Indiana: Pastor Vaughn Reeves and his sons arrested for stealing $6M from …

Over the last seven days…. Texas: Pastor William Frank Brown charged with eight counts of child molestation and aggravated sexual assault.Missouri: Pastor Aaron Rodgerson charged with failure to report child abuse, neglect, or death and practicing law without a license.Florida: Pastor Jose Sos Santos charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of 12 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor William Ralph Wilson III …

Over the last seven days… Tennessee: Pastor Shane West convicted of prescription drug fraud.Kentucky: Pastor Daniel Gabbard charged with wanton murder in fatal DUI crash.North Carolina: Rev. John Schneider charged with obstructing justice for purging child pornography from the home computer of his church’s music minster. Ontario: Rev. William Major sentenced to two years in prison for sexual assault.Florida: Pastor …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Pastor Ernest Beal charged with stealing $75K from the personal accounts of residents of the developmentally disabled adults living in group homes he was overseeing.New York: Father Patrick Dunne charged with stealing $432K from his parish, including money from a fund meant for Katrina victims.Canada: Father Robert Borne charged with molesting three children.Colombia: Pastor …

Over the last seven days… Minnesota: Rev. Donald Dean Budd convicted of two counts of felony sexual misconduct.Utah: Pastor William J. Blanscet charged with exposing himself over a webcam to who he thought was a 13 year-old girl.Pennsylvania: Pastor Guy Carlton Jones sentenced to three years in state prison for attempted sexual conduct with an 8 year-old girl. Bonus: Jones …

Over the last seven days…Florida: Imam Yasser Mohamed Shahade arrested for sexual assault of 13 year-old boy.Israel: Rabbi Elior Noam Hen charged with ritualistic burning and cutting of toddlers because they were “possessed by the devil.” One child is in a permanent vegetative state. Rabbi Hen has fled to Brazil, who has agreed to extradite him back to Israel.Colorado: Pastor …

Over the last seven days….. West Virginia: Pastor Sandy Martin Cook sentenced to 20 – 60 years in prison for child molestation.Alabama: Youth Pastor Charles Miller pleads guilty to possession of child pornography, may get 15 years in prison.Connecticut: Pastor Vernitt Hoheb charged with sexual assault on 16 year-old parishioner.Massachusetts: Pastor Ana Paula Almeida charged with rape of 13 year-old. …

Over the last seven days… Connecticut: Pastor Yves Jerome convicted of raping 14 year-old girl.Hawaii: Pastor Manuel Taboada confesses to molesting 11 year-old girl.Maryland: Rabbi Jacob Aaron Max convicted of sexual assault. Bonus: Max is 85.New York: Rabbi Israel Weingarten convicted of sexually abusing his daughter repeatedly over a ten year period.Australia: Father Kevin Phillips charged with multiple counts of …

Over the last seven days… North Carolina: Pastor Joseph Kennedy Ragland arrested for rape of a minor.Canada: Rev. David Woodall charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.California: Pastor Robert Bowman arrested for possession of child pornography. Bonus: Bowman is the headmaster of a Christian grade school.North Carolina: Pastor Raymond Bernard Reid charged …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Salvation Army Pastor Jonathan Hartman arrested for molesting three girls, youngest was 13, one is pregnant.Alabama: Pastor Randall Pardue arrested for securities fraud.California: Rev. Arcadio Larry Pineda and wife sued by congregation for embezzling over $100K.North Carolina: Bishop Anthony Linwright charged with tax evasion, mail fraud, perjury for evading hundreds of thousands in income …

Over the last seven days…. Florida: Pastor James Harris arrested for filming high school football players having sex in return for the promise of NFL careers. Some say this has gone on for decades.California: Father Antonio Cortes arrested for unlawful sexual behavior with a minor.Kansas: Pastor Alfred White nearly beats woman to death in dispute over whether he fathered her …

Over the last seven days…..Missouri: Pastor Robert M. Black busted in internet underage sex sting.California: Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby arrested for murdering 8 year-old girl.Texas: Pastor Robert Baker charged with murdering wife.Virginia: Pastor Ana Paula Almeida charged with rape of 14 year-old.Tennessee: Church youth volunteer Matthew Jernigan charged with two counts of child rape.Georgia: Pastor Otis Ray Hope charged …

Here’s a brief little recap of what’s going on out there in church land…. Indiana – Pastor Daniel Moore arrested for sexual misconduct with a minor.Iowa – Pastor James Wiles and wife arrested for financial exploitation and abuse of elderly.Rwanda – Pastor Steven Gatema arrested for murdering business rival.Delaware – Pastor Harry Benson arrested for child molestation.Phoenix – Pastor Charles …