Pedophile Bible Study

Westminister California Police arrested and the District Attorney is prosecuting a child molester who sexually attacked children at Bible Studies in his home.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-biblestudy11-2009sep11,0,6090320.story

Not only are fundamentalists and evangelicals programming their members to hack up their babies, allow them to die when adequate medical care would cure them and allow them a normal life, but it seems that fundie pedophiles are now molesting children at Bible Studies.

Pedophiles are sometime termed mentally ill. sick individuals who need psychological help to recover from their disgusting practices. So with the recent scandals of Roman Catholic Priests caught in molestation convictions and the church paying out obscene amounts of settlements does it stop there?

NO! It does not and it continues under the very noses of people involved in a fantasy existence and they justify it by group indoctrination.

http://www.silentlambs.org/answers/index.cfm

Check this link out for information on the Jehova's Witnesses practice on dealing with pedophiles in their ranks. For instance here is what happens to an accused molester:

Myth 2: Jehovah's Witnesses take precautions to protect children within their organization against accused child molesters.

The Truth is

"Sex offenders are given complete anonymity when they are discovered. An accused pedophile is viewed as an innocent man, and elders and members of a congregation others are disallowed from warning people of the accusations against the molester. An accused pedophile is allowed to freely move from one Jehovah's Witness congregation to another, without a letter to follow. An accused pedophile can serve as an elder or have any privilege in a congregation even if convicted by a court of law. In fact, this protection for an accused pedophile extends to this policy: if any Jehovah's Witness disagrees with this policy, then that person can be deemed "causing divisions" and is subject to disciplinary action by the organization."


Here is another instance:


Myth 4: Jehovah's Witnesses take steps to protect children in the public from accused, confessed and convicted child molesters.

The Truth is

Jehovah's Witnesses approve, condone, and encourage accused, confessed, and convicted child molesters to call door to door on unknowing potential victims in the witnessing work. The Watchtower Organization requires all members of its organization to participate in witness work, going door to door in the public to spread the word about the bible. The Watchtower Organization does not prohibit a confessed or convicted child molester from contact with children in going door to door to witness (preach about the bible).

The primary purpose of witnessing when Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door in the public is to start home bible studies. If an accused or convicted pedophile starts a study with a family who has children, no directive is offered on protocol of how this is to be handled. No policy exists within the Watchtower Organization that prevents a Jehovah's Witness child molester from studying the bible with families (even those with children) outside of a Jehovah's Witness congregation. There have been occasions where a molester started a bible study with people that have shown interest in religion and then molested their children.

Moving on to the Southern Baptists....


From an article in Kentucky, http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3614&Itemid=53


LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) -- A former Southern Baptist youth minister in Kentucky was sentenced Oct. 31 to 10 years in prison after confessing to sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl he met while posing as a 17-year-old youth evangelist on the social-networking website MySpace.

Timothy Scott Richerson, 40, of Greensburg, Ky., admitted in July that he met the girl online and then followed up with computer and telephone messages during the summer of 2007. That September he drove about 50 miles from his home in Greensburg, Ky., to the victim's home in Madison County, where he sexually exploited her.

The girl's mother became suspicious after several visits by Richerson. She found sexually explicit text messages on her daughter's phone and called police. The Kentucky State Police arrested Richerson in Greensburg Oct. 12, 2007, and a federal court indicted him in March, as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Justice Department initiative aimed at protecting children from online predators.

From the examples given and the links to prove the events it is quite plain to see that these fundamentalist and evangelical groups are engaging in not only illegal but depraved, disgusting and outright sickening behavior while turning a blind eye to the protection of the children.

This has got to stop and full investigations into these abuses followed by convictions are needed to stop these people from abusing anyone else. There is no excuse to allow this to happen to ANY CHILDREN and the fact the Southern Baptists are unwilling to properly investigate those interacting with their children clearly shows they condone it. The congregation could do background checks regularly to keep updated on the people who are there and interact with the children.

The time is far past to allow this to continue and to allow pedophiles to hide in the ranks should be reason enough to keep their children out of these groups.

Until the membership is made to obey the laws that protect everyone then they should be constantly scrutinized by persons with the power to arrest, charge, try and convict them to enforce the law. No one should be above the law in these fascist religious groups where people and especially children are victimized physically or mentally through scare tactics or fictionalized accounts of events that cannot be proven or substantiated.

TFR