Tag Archives: This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Nevada: Father Kevin McAuliffe confesses to stealing $650K to support his gambling habit.Texas: Pastor Francisco Antonio Hernandez arrested for molesting at least four girls, including three who were sisters.Tennessee: Pastor Rickey Alan Reed arrested for burglarizing the home of a parishioner.Oklahoma: Pastor Joe Cheater arrested for molestation and child rape of four girls.New York: Reverend …

Over the last seven days… Belgium: Brussels Archdiocese promises to compensate 500 victims of molestation by church workers. At least 13 suicides are thought to have resulted from the attacks.North Carolina: Pastor John Jackson charged with additional felony counts of embezzling from his church. Last month Jackson was charged with using church funds to insure his five Cadillacs.Ontario: Pastor Emmanual …

Over the last seven days… Wisconsin: Pastor David E. Radtke charged with sexual assault on a 16 year-old student.Georgia: Pastor David Pope charged with child molestation.Wisconsin: Father Michael Nowak charged with making obscene phone calls to underage girls.Kentucky: Pastor Jeremy Caraway charged with child rape.Arizona: Two Mormon bishops will not be charged for failing to report a church member who …

Over the last seven days… South Carolina: Pastor Charles Ledford arrested for embezzling over $250K from his church.Louisiana: Pastor Elijah Mealancon busted for stealing $100K from an elderly parishioner.New Brunswick: Father Charles Jean Picot found guilty of child molestation.Georgia: Pastor Kenneth Terrell pleads guilty to embezzling $200K from his church. Terrell has been arrested 27 times in the past.Missouri: Father …

Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Julio Perez charged with murder for hiring a hit man to shoot his wife.Mississippi: Pastor Eddie Prince charged with downloading child porn on a public library computer.Washington DC: Whistleblower lawsuit filed against Catholic Charities for charging the poor for flu shots meant to be free under a government-funded program.New York: Father Francis McCloskey …

Over the last seven days… Alabama: Pastor Barry Albert Cook charged with sexual abuse and torture of a child.South Carolina: Pastor Jonathan Roberts charged with felonious theft of church money.New York: Father Thomas Kreiser charged with using $25K in church donations for online gambling.Wisconsin: Pastor Philip Caminiti charged with eight felony counts of child abuse for beating children as young …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor Jason Bolton charged with stalking an underage girl. He has a previous arrest for statutory rape.New York: Rabbi Nechemya Weberman arrested for molestation of 12 year-old girl.Georgia: Pastor Albert Turnell charged with possession and distribution of child porn.Alabama: Pastor Michael Wilkerson charged with writing a bad check to purchase $111K Mercedes. He previously …

Over the last seven days…Washington: Pastor Dirk Jackson arrested for the rape of a 12 year-old girl.Tennessee: Pastor Ronnie Powe charged with aggravated statutory rape.Kentucky: Pastor Jerry Cannon charged with posting hundreds of child porn images to Facebook.New York: Rabbi Milton Balkany sentenced to four years in $4M hedge fund extortion.Minnesota: Father Christopher Wenthe charged with felony sexual abuse of …

Over the last seven days…. California: Pastor Tommy Gene Daniels held on $6M bail for six felony counts of molesting girls as young as five years old.Massachusetts: Father Gary Mercure on trial for molesting two altar boys.South Carolina: Pastor Daniel Belcher charged with embezzling $200,000 from a former employer.Britain: Catholic Church settles lawsuit filed by three brothers molested by the …

Over the last seven days… New York: Pastor Michael Clare charged with first degree rape of 12 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor Ronald Satterfield charged with running a $3.3M Ponzi scheme that wiped out dozens of his congregants.Texas: Pastor Larry Gene Martin charged with aggravated sexual assault on a 12 year-old girl.Texas: Pastor Randy Carl Russell charged with making a terrorist …

Over the last seven days… Nevada: Pastor Otis Holland arrested for molesting a seven year-old girl. Holland was arrested last year on similar charges.New York: Pastor Jason LaPierre arrested for embezzling over $400,000 from a credit union.Ontario: Father James Boudreau arrested for sexual assault on a child.Belgium: Father Eric Dejaeger accused of molesting multiple children in Canada. He has already …

Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Earl Post arrested for stalking a teenage girl.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun pleads not guilty to ordering the murders of two men. Koltun was previously sentenced to five years for mail fraud.Connecticut: Pastor David Pomales and his children arrested in church brawl.Bangladesh: Imam Afsar Ali arrested in connection with the death of a …

Over the last seven days… New York: Monsignor Charles Kavanagh has been defrocked after being found guilty of child molestation by a three-priest Catholic tribunal. He is the highest-ranked New York priest so judged and has not faced criminal charges.Oklahoma: Pastor Baron Hopgood arrested for embezzlement.Ireland: Father Oliver O’Grady charged with possessing thousands of child porn images.Ohio: Pastor Mark Griggs …

Over the last seven days…. Indiana: Father Byron Canada sentenced to 11 years in prison in $2.7M real estate scam.Arkansas: Pastor Robert Burnham resigns after bust in prostitution sting.Indiana: Pastor Vaughn Reeves sentenced to 54 years in prison for embezzling over $13M from church construction investors.New York: Rabbi Victor Koltun charged two counts of murder in the killings of a …

Over the last seven days… Colorado: Pastor Joshua Amoroso charged with sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl.Germany: Report implicates more than 250 priests and staffers in child abuse scandal at school in archdiocese once headed by the Pope.Kentucky: Pastor Currie Pat Clark charged with 296 counts of sodomy of a 12 year-old boy.Georgia: Pastor Brian Richard Gray charged with …

Over the last seven days…Alabama: Pastor Carl Lloyd arrested for sodomizing a child.New York: Rabbi Yehuda Kolko arrested for violating order of protection against 12 year-old boy he’s accused of molesting.Japan: Buddhist priest Nobuaki Matsumoto busted for hiring middle-school age prostitute.Florida: Pastor Daniel Richard Robida charged with unlawful sexual acts with a child.Ireland: Father Raymond Brady charged with molesting ten …

Over the last seven days… Virginia: Pastor J.P. Hale sentenced to six years in prison for indecent liberties with a child.Pennsylvania: Father Robert Timchak sentenced to six years in prison for possession of child pornography.North Carolina: Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw arrested for the rape of an 11 year-old girl.South Carolina: Pastor David K. Love arrested for the murder of a …

Over the last seven days… Washington: Pastor Greg Scott Glover arrested for stealing oxycontin from the home of an elderly parishioner. She busted him with a hidden camera.Ireland: Father Brendan Wrixon charged with sexual assault of a teenage boy.Ontario: Reverend Paul Hartig charged with felony theft for stealing from his own church.California: Pastor Dino Cardelli arrested for molesting a 13 …

Over the last seven days… Pennsylvania: Pastor Arthur Schirmer arrested for the murder of his wife. Schirmer is also suspected of having killed his first wife nine years ago.Ontario: Father Kenneth Gibbs sued by five women for sexually abusing them as children. Last year Gibbs was convicted on eight counts of sexual assault.Michigan: Pastor William Bendert arrested for attempting to …

Over the last seven days… California: Pastor Leonel Pelayo charged with sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl.Ottawa: Father Robin Barrett convicted of possessing tens of thousands of child porn videos and images.Florida: Pastor Steven Rowe charged with molesting four students at the Christian middle school where he is headmaster.Texas: Father Chester W. King arrested for lewd behavior in a …