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Abbeville MS Pastor Larry Gene Singleton Indicted of Sexual Battery of a Child

March 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Mississippi pastor Larry Gene Singleton, 71, was indicted by a Tate County grand jury on 18 felony counts related to the sexual battery of a child.

Larry Gene Singleton, the former pastor of Bay Springs Baptist Church in Abbeville, was indicted on two counts of fondling, six counts of sexual battery and 10 counts of child pornography.

Singleton was arrested last December when authorities received a complaint accusing the pastor of forcing him to have sex. The sexual abuse allegedly started when the victim was 11 and continued for several years. The victim is now 18 years old.

Pastor Larry Gene Singleton is currently being held on $1 million bond in the Tate County jail.

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Former Kansas City Associate Pastor George Spencer Arrested on Child Molestation Charges

March 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment

PASTOR GEORGE SPENCER ARRESTED:  George Spencer, 58, a former associate pastor at Greater Works CME Church in Kansas City, Mo., was arrested in New Orleans on charges of child molestation and forcible sodomy of a child.

Fox4KC reports, Spencer was charged by Jackson County prosecutors with statutory sodomy, forcible sodomy, three counts of child molestation and two counts of sexual misconduct involving a child.

George Spencer’s arrest stemmed from the FBI field office in Kansas City that received information of his alleged attack on a 13 year old girl in February 2012 while he served as associate pastor of Greater Works. The teen told police he molested her.

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Natisha Hillard Charged with Selling 18 Month Old Daughter to Christopher Bour

March 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Natisha Hillard Charged with Selling 18 Month Old Daughter to Christopher Bour

SHOCK:  Natisha Hillard has been charged with selling her 18-month-old daughter to Christopher Bour, for an undisclosed sum of money. Bour reportedly used her to make child pornography. The FBI launched an investigation after being alerted by an unnamed masseuse who said Bour had sent her a text message about his intentions to sexually abuse the child.

NBC News reports an FBI agent assumed the identity of the masseuse and texted Bour about his plans with with the infant. He responded with graphic descriptions and said he had done it before with the Natisha Hillard’s approval.

 

Christopher Bour’s computer was seized by FBI agents during a raid of his Hammond, Ind., home. They found videos and photographs of people engaging in sex acts with young children, including images of Bour and young children. Natisha Hillard was also seen in some of the photographs.

Natisha Hillard was charged with selling her child to Christopher Bour with the knowledge she would be “portrayed in a visual depiction assisting another person to engage in sexually explicit conduct.” He was arrested on several charges. 

 

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La Grange Pastor Donald R. Jung Charged with Sexual Assault of a Child

February 23, 2013 by 2 Comments
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La Grange Pastor Donald R. Jung Charged with Sexual Assault of a Child (Credit: STMW)

Rev. Donald R. Jung, pastor of the Second Baptist Church in La Grange, was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, which is a Class X felony, CBS Chicago reports. He was arrested following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct between Jung and a juvenile.

Pastor Jung, 59, is currently being held on $750,000 bond. He reportedly drove to Milwaukee to pick up three females and drove them to his home in La Grange where he sexually assaulted a nine-year old girl, the Chicago Tribune reported.

 

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James Taylor, Charlotte Charter School Employee, Charged with Raping 12 YO Student

February 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
James Taylor, Charlotte Charter School Employee, Charged with Raping 12 YO Student

James Taylor, Charlotte Charter School Employee, Charged with Raping 12 YO Student (Charlotte Observer)

James Taylor, in-school suspension coordinator for Sugar Creek Charter School in Charlotte, NC, was fired after being charged with raping a 12 year old student inside the school sometime in January.

James Taylor, 38, who faces seven felony charges, including two counts of child rape, is being held on $320,000 bond. The Charlotte Observer reports Taylor worked as the ISS coordinator for the last three to four years.

Taylor was also charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a student and two counts of indecent liberties with a child.

 

 

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Christina Regusters Charged with Rape, Abduction of 5 Year old Girl from Philly School

February 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Christina Regusters Charged with Rape, Abduction of 5 Year old Girl from Philly School

HORRIFIC:  Christina Regusters was charged with 14 crimes, including rape and abduction, of a five year old girl from a West Philadelphia school in January. Christina Regusters was ordered held on $4 million bail during a court hearing on Friday.

Sources tell Action News that Regusters was the woman seen on school surveillance video, escorting the 5-year-old out of Bryant Elementary School and wearing Muslim garb, back on January 14th.

Police say Regusters held the girl captive before letting her go. The girl was found the next morning in a nearby Upper Darby park wearing only a t-shirt.

Sources also say Regusters was a match to DNA taken from the victim’s shirt. Darby did confirm reports that Regusters recently moved into the area and worked at the daycare the victim attended after school. Source

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Franciscan Friar Stephen Baker, Accused of Abuse in Two States, Commits Suicide

January 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Friar Stephen Baker, 62, a Franciscan friar accused of sexually abusing students at a Catholic high school in Ohio and Pennsylvania, committed suicide Saturday morning at St. Bernadine Monastery in Hollidaysburg, Pa.

The police declined to say what type of self-inflicted wounds were found on Stephen Baker or whether a suicide note was found.

Friar Stephen Baker was named in a legal settlement last week involving 11 men who accused him of sexually abusing them at a northeast John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Oh., from 1986-90.

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Tatiana Meakens, Sister Charged in Deaths of Her Two Toddlers Killed in Chicago Apartment Fire

December 23, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Tatiana Meakens, Sister Charged in Deaths of Her Two Toddlers Killed in Apartment Fire

SHOCK:  Toddlers Jeryiah and Jarvis Meakens died in an Englewood apartment fire in Chicago after their mother, Tatiana Meakens, 23, and her sister, Britany Meakens, 22, left them in the care of their two older siblings, while they went to a party. The two older children were able to get out of the apartment when the fire broke out but were unable to save their siblings.

The two women were each charged with two counts of felony for endangering a child causing death and two counts of misdemeanor for endangering the life and health of a child, NBC Chicago reports. I would venture to say that this wasn’t the first time Tatiana Meakens left her young kids alone at home. She has four kids at 23. Where are the father(s) of these kids? The grown-up thing to have done was to get a babysitter or not go to the party at all. Leaving four young children alone at home is irresponsible and criminal.

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Fourth Man Accuses Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash of Inappropriate Relationship When he was Underage

December 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has been accused of an inappropriate relationship by a fourth man. That’s after Sheldon Stephens, Cecil Singleton and John Doe came forward. The unidentified man claims Kevin Clash flew him from Miami to New York where they had sexual contact in his apartment. He claims he met Clash when he was 15 or 16 on the street in Miami Beach in late 1995 or 1996.

The boy, who was thinking about running away from home anyway, agreed, and Clash sent him a plane ticket and arranged for a car to pick him up at the airport.

But in Clash’s apartment, the man, now 33, said he was victimized by the older man, who allegedly had sexual contact with him numerous times.

‘Once he got to New York, it was all about the sex,’ the victim’s Florida-based attorney, Jeff Herman, told MailOnline.

This is starting to sound a lot like the Eddie L. Long scandal that rocked New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

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Third Man Accuses Elmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash of Underage Relationship, Called Him ‘Mr. Tickler’

November 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Third accuser steps forward in the former Elmo puppeteer, Kevin Clash, underage sex scandal. The unidentified accuser, now 29, said he used to call him “Mr. Tickler” and game they played was father and son.

Daily Mail:  The suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court today details how the accuser, known only as John Doe, was contacted by Clash on a gay chat line called Powerchat and they met in Clash’s upscale Manhattan apartment in 2000. The puppeteer used an alias, giving his name as Craig and claiming to be 30 when in fact he was 40.

In an explosive book manuscript revealed at a press conference in New York today and written by the alleged victim, now 29, he writes: ‘Mr Tickler is what I will call him and the game we played was father and son. We first met when I was 16 and there was no intercourse, lots of heavy kissing and he showed me what it felt like to get on your knees and obey your man.’

I expect more accusers to come forward. If the allegations are true, Kevin Clash should be arrested for child molestation and rape.

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