The Pedophiles Are Inside The Churches

All of these stories were reported during the last month …

Michael Schneider, a staff member at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Illinois, was sentenced to 88 years in prison for criminal sexual assault of a minor and possession of child pornography.

Stephen Arthur Morris, a former pastor, was sentenced to prison for sex crimes but was back in court facing more charges … like sexually assaulting a member of his own family and four counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of first-degree sex offense with a minor.

Russell Woodman Davis, a lay pastor and youth minister, pleaded guilty to raping and attempting to rape the three boys at various times between 1988 and 2006, in Massachusetts.

Alexander Blackwelder, a youth pastor in Mississippi, accused of having sex with a 16-year-old church member was ordered held without bond  and charged with two counts of sexual battery and enticement of a child to produce visual depictions of adult sexual conduct.

Clark and Matthew Travis, brothers with pastoral leadership positions at Texas churches, were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting at least five children.

Jonathan Lamont Jenkins, a former Santa Ana youth pastor in California pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

Daniel Merrick, a Christian musician, pastor in Pennsylvania was charged with more than 880 felony counts of child pornography.

Keenan Maurice Hord, a former youth pastor in Tennessee, pleaded guilty to 13 sex-related crimes involving children and was sentenced to 60 years.

Carl Johnson, a former church bishop in Utah was sentenced to prison on child sex abuse charges following incidents that dated back to the 80s.

Stephen Weiss, a former rabbi in Ohio will spend 6 months in jail after he pled guilty of sending explicit messages to a police officer he thought was a 15-year-old boy.

Kenneth Daniel, a former pastor, was arrested and indicted in October on charges of facilitating solicitation of unlawful sexual conduct with a child.

Joshua Henley, a former youth pastor, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison plus 10 years supervised release after admitting that he produced child sexual abuse material involving three minors, transported a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in sexual activity with the minor, sent obscene videos and images to a minor and possessed and transported child sexual abuse material.

Jeffrey Bedwell, a former pastor, received 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious molestation, one count of lewd or lascivious conduct, one count of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition.

Mike Linkenauger, a former minister, was sentenced to life in prison for sexual battery and lewd or lascivious acts with a minor.

David Warren Henson, Jr., a teacher at a Lutheran church, was charged with sexual abuse of a minor and child pornography.

Milton O. Martin III, a pastor, was charged with sexual abuse of a minor and sexual battery.

Rogelio Vega, a disgraced Queens Catholic Church deacon, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for enticing three boys into having sex with him. After his arrest, investigators found evidence of more victims on his cell phone and identified three underage boys he enticed into sexual encounters.

Dennis Laferty, a pastor, has been charged with five counts of third-degree felony sexual battery, and one count of third-degree felony gross sexual imposition involving a person less than 13 years of age.

Gary Buckaloo, a youth pastor and worship leader, has been charged with one count of Indecency with a Child-Sexual Contact one count of Sex Abuse of a Child.

Terry Frank Compton, a former pastor, was sentenced to four life sentences after he pleaded guilty to multiple child sex crimes from 1995 through 2021.

James Rankin Johnson, a former teacher at a Christian school, pleaded guilty to the charge of “offenses against students by authority figures.” He accepted a plea deal for a lesser charge, with the state agreeing to drop two counts of lewd or lascivious molestation. He will serve four years in state prison with five years’ probation and register as a sex offender.

But again, tell me how drag queens are a threat to children. And, please, whenever you hear someone say drag queens or gay people, are grooming children, point out the vast numbers of so-called men of faith, who are raping children and worse.