A pastor who was "betrothed" to a child, then abused her, is finally in custody (Livestream)
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- When Robert Fenton was 26 and a youth pastor, he told a couple that attended his church that he was drawn to their daughter and “meant to be with her.”
She was 14 at the time.
Last year, the survivor finally told her story. And Fenton has now been captured.
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Nah, the parents need to be arrested too.
And that pastor dug up.
Oh wait...
Before condemning the parents, you should ask why are there laws in place that allow child marriage? While I think this has been remedied in Pennsylvania, there are still states that allow this.
@@subanarkThe laws are an issue.
But the parents endangered their child. Child Endangerment is a crime. So yes, arrest the parents too.
@@subanark Republicans want children working in meat packing plants with no minimum wage restrictions. And, if they are old enough to work in meat packing plants, they are old enough to get married. And, they will never be too old or too young to not be allowed to have an abortion. But, of course, no matter what, they must not be allowed to have healthcare for themselves or their unwanted children.
Vote Blue!
@@tristanalain9239 I grew up in the 90s. Child endangerment laws were much less strict than they are now. Maybe I missed something, but I didn't hear of any indication that the parents were aware of what illegal activities were happening.
shame on the parents for utterly failing to protect their daughter from a pedo.
A lot of people don't really love their children. Especially their girl children.
They trafficked her.
@@elenachristian9860oof.
I’m guessing THEIR PARENTS failed them. We have a lot of dysfunctional families in the USA - especially in western cultures.
And typically, the Bible screws up soooo many people’s heads. Because the Bible is propaganda. A control mechanism used by the 1% over everyone without wealth.
These are people who want no responsibility for their lives.
When are we going to take away the tax exempt status from these criminals?
When hell freezes over, and you can see how problematic that is.
I was expecting COVID-19 to get rid of gAd.
When we decide we want religion to have an official voice in our government. They already have outsized influence on our government. But, the moment we tax them, we grant them the right to have official representation in our government. So, you tell me - when do you want them to have an official voice in our government?
Personally, I would rather not have their money, if it means they can have official representation in government.
@@darthmocap Well, with that climate change going on, there is quite some possibility there! 🙃😉
@@darthmocap The most problematic thing about hell is proving it even exists.
I never want to hear another right winger whine about drag queens. EVER!
I can appreciate that to a certain degree... Problem is one size egregious behavior does not indicate the others'. Both sides can still be wrong. This is even assuming that there are sides to begin with.
@@Deriduswhat egregious behavior have drag queens done? Dressing in fancy clothes and make up?
@@DeridusExcept theyre not even comparable. The statistics for children being SA'd in churches are astronomical. This case in the video is not unusual in Christiann churches and again that is born out by verifiable statistics. The number of children being SA'd by trans people are so small I couldn't even find any statistics. Trans people reading children's books is NOT an SA nor is it sexy- unless thats your kink in which case youre statistically probably chrisitan.
@Deridus which has the overwhelming documented history of child abuse and which gets the exaggerated moral panics? Acknowledge which group is obviously, blatantly worse unless you wanna help said moral panic
@@Deridusyour personal knk for trans people reading kids books to children is entirely your own thing- its not inherently sxy except to people like you.
So who are the groomers again? Everyone who was involved, everyone who knew and said nothing, should go to prison. Let the general population know why they are there too.
Yup, so many moral failings from all the adults around that girl. All in the name of Jesus.
But... but.. drag queens!
This activity is commonplace throughout the US in all christian communities, but much less so in the black christian communities.
You need to remember that when the right makes an accusation, they are projecting.
Every conservative accusation is a confession.
As a Filipino, i felt my stomach DROP hearing he was coming to the Philippines. Usually sex offenders from the West don’t just go to Southeast Asian countries just to “learn more about the culture…..”
I thought the same thing. So glad they arrested him right away before he got the chance to hurt children there.
Speak of the devil, my pedo uncle who abused me and is fleeing from his third federal CP indictment is currently hiding in the Philippines and they're not doing anything to extradite him and it makes me physically and mentally ill to think about it...
@davidallamericananarchi st9220 I'm sorry. I hope he gets arrested soon.
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This is exactly what I thought when I saw that part.
The senior pastor should have been charged with trafficking.
hes ded
And this is why children marrying needs to be fully illegal with none of this "with guardians' permission" crap... and all marriages that occurred when either party was under 18 completely ANNULLED.
Exactly. The fact that the child legally can not get divorced until they're 18 is just a slap to the face.
Especially when so many 'guardians' seem willing to pump their young daughters out to pedophiles.
If a person is considered by law to be too young Mohave sex, then they must be to young to getting married, because sex is part of marriage.
My father signed for me to marry at 15, I’m almost 40 and still healing from the trauma.
But, somehow, they would have been mortified if a 26 year old man wanted to court their 14 year old son.
Or if a 26 year old woman wanted their 14 years old boy. But that's not the sort of thing that happens eh all peados are men. To the point where talking to a child in public, even one's relative is frowned upon.
But not if a 26 year old woman was interested in their 14 year old son
@@jennifertarin4707 which is my poin
Yup
@@jennifertarin4707Stop using male victims as a distraction for the point
Sounds like the parents funneled this girl to the groomer, they need to be in trouble too.
The move to home schooling is also a way to keep the child from making a comment regarding what’s going on where it is heard by a mandatory reporter. No one that can report will hear allegations of abuse or see bruises if they never leave the house.
Homeschooling is one of the most scurrilous developments in American education.
It's actually completely illegal in Germany. It's considered (rightly) detrimental to the normal development of a child in our society to not have the regular social interactions and relationships kids have among their peers growing up. It also is a way for the system to keep some kind of track of kids that might be at risk, truancy is taken seriously. It is most often due to deeper issues the kid is dealing with.
...and the child will be fed whatever garbage that's in the parent's mind.
@@TwisterTornado Maybe people of CHARACTER need to V O T E for 'other than' the Regressives who're spreading filth.
@@TwisterTornadoor just campaign against nutters running for election school boards, county, state and Town elections.
I grew up in a similar "christian" community... one closely linked to the Bakers, Hagee and Copeland. I saw men in their 40s and older married to 14, 15 and 16 year old girls... while I was in my mid-teens. All for the glory of god!
Thankfully I was kicked out of my family and home at the age 16 for not having sufficient faith to heal my father's cancer with prayer alone.
It is with great relief that today I can continue to declare myself an atheist orphan - and have no regrets for my decision to never look back.
I wish this young woman the strength and resolve to see that scoundrel imprisoned for life.
So, god is like a twitch streamer with billions of people in the chatroom all spamming prayers that appear on the screen for 0.0001 seconds before scrolling off the screen.
It's not a 'Christian' community - it's a Christian community. The scare quotes make it a Scotsman fallacy. Since Christianity it made up, there is no objective measure against which you can decide who is and is not Christian. So anyone calling themselves Christian has just as much claim to the name as anyone else.
@subanark it's worse than that, there's no god on the other end of the twitch stream... Just an empty chair
@@TheZombieSaints Even the chair is imaginary.
@@eh1702and the chat room, and the twitch channel.
I am a retired attorney and a retired cop. As a cop, I trained a guy who had recently graduated from the police academy. He was in his thirties and had been a full-time youth pastor at a major church prior to joining the police department. When I asked why he had left his church, he told me he had felt called to become a cop. The guy was extremely arrogant and unpleasant but he did learn well enough to perform the core functions of the job so he passed his probationary period and became a permanent member of the police department.
Years later, I received a telephone call from a friend telling me that my former trainee had committed suicide. He had lived in an area covered by a different law enforcement agency. Somebody from that agency apparently called him and told him that they were on the way to his house to arrest him for molesting his children. He fled his house and shot himself in a parking lot.
Whenever I think about that guy, I wonder if there was another reason he left his job as a youth pastor. Did he get caught by the church? Did they keep things quiet? I am unlikely to ever know for certain but I have my suspicions.
At least the story has a happy ending to some degree.
Possibly. Though ... I would also leave open 10% of the range of possibilities open to the opposite end of the spectrum. After all, he never went to trial, so we will never know. But, on the off chance he was falsely accused, being arrested for molesting your own children might drive a parent to kill themselves.
Probably guilty. But you know ... In policing, you guys see the worst and so it's easy to start assuming the worst.
Bro your job was like to investigate stuff.
@@mathiasbartl903 I spent almost my entire career in patrol. I investigated a lot of crimes in my career but the vast majority of those were crimes that had occurred within the relatively recent past and that occurred within the boundaries of the city for which I worked. I didn’t have a lot of latitude to investigate a hunch about a dead former youth minister who might have been committing crimes somewhere else over a decade in the past. I am now retired. About the only things I investigate these days are the occasional CZcams videos and what I might want to have for lunch. It is a tough life but somebody has to live it.
No police agency calls people to warn them that they're about to be arrested.
This is what "traditional biblical marriage" really looks like.
Nah , not until the maid joins in.
Exactly!
Or the harem
In a world where 14 y.o. girls often look like they should still have playsets or jump ropes. Those Mosaic traditionalists will have a little trouble peddling that to people who don't see the romantic appeal in children that young.
No it doesn’t! The devil is a lie!
"Without God, you can't you possibly have morality!" apologists say to me all the time, yet I never once tried to start a relationship with or marry an underage girl like his pastor.
Morality comes from within. No amount of church attendance or huge donations will make an immoral person decent. Church men prey on the vulnerable, and get paid to do it. No church is a safe space for women and children. Pretend Christians and rich people have no pathway to heaven. I prefer the Navajo Beauty Way. I've had this discussion with Witnesses and LDS missionaries. They quite literally run away from me. They don't like it when people have answers for their stupid questions.
Ethics are what I live by, "morality" has the stink of religious hypocrisy and self righteousness. My ethics will take the Pepsi challenge any day.
And if you knew this was happening you would report it and tell her that it is wrong.
I am fed up with the attitude that you have to go to church to be a good person, and those who go to church are magically better people than everyone else. And the implication that atheists are bad people because we’re atheist is just unreal!
If someone said "I am drawn to your daughter" when she's 14 and hes 26, at BEST im gonna have to be pulled away before be gets whooped.
These parents are complicit in this, and are equally responsible.
Yeah pretty disgusting of them to pimp their daughters out to pedophiles.
Same old, same old. The morally superior group, apparently🤷♂️
Many of them think Trump is a messiah, nuff said.
The silent moral majority, which is not silent, moral, or a majority.
Religion is so F'd up I can't even talk out loud sometimes for all the "wtf" will never stop 🤬
The Bible has been used explicitly to incite fear and therefore control. And the conservative right wing is nothing but control with propaganda, using the Bible as its tool. Unfortunately, it’ll continue to exert power and influence for another century. Even though the population attendance has been steadily dropping.
Not just 'Christianity'.
SDA church for a horrible group as well.
Some religious sects are far worse than others. We can't just generalize about religion as atheists. It makes us look stupid and uninformed
@@RobespierreThePoof, yeah maybe but I haven't seen many. As an XXCatholic I feel I know enough and it's not what they are peddling, Too many Mormons in trial lately for killing (or trying to) their children or: Daybell, Franke/Hildebrandt. Just sayin' they don't monitor their "flocks" well enough. Besides I'm not an atheist more agnostic. Just nature and the universe and I'm content.
What outstanding parents. They should be prosecuted for neglect.
Accessories.
Religion: "We are exonerated from telling the truth, following the law and living in reality, and our corruption is protected by a thing we call 'deeply held beliefs'."
(You mean “exempt” not “exonerated”.)
🎯🎯🎯😒
religion is dog shit
I’ve been following the case of a pastors wife who may or may not have unalived herself. He started as her youth pastor and started grooming her at 14 as well.
Email the story to Hemant !
@@katyungodly Mica Miller is the pastor’s wife. The pastor is J.P. Miller. It’s a rabbit hole!
Pennsylvania has let priests get away with thousands of child sex abuse cases. When Kathleen Kane , ran for AG on that single issue, she was harassed and challenged throughout her entire term. They eventually drove her out of office. There are many cases in Pa. involving judges, priests and bishops. They were running childrens prison camps and the judges were getting kickbacks for sending kids for up to a year in confinement for minor issues. Pa. is also the proud state where a woman died in prison while she was held for her childs truancy from skool..
That whole "getting kickbacks for kids" was when two PA judges got caught literally selling children into slavery, giving the private juvenile hall souls for way longer than was sane or legal. One judge pled guilty, the other was released without charge, the corporation was not punished, and the economic incentive was not removed. It will happen again.
@@chesthoIe And do we even need to ask if they were christian judges ?
@@artstrology no.
Tennessee ,Kentucky ,west Virginia, ,.... are the same
@@georgesheffield1580 and the churches are still getting multi-million dollar government grants and contracts for caring for at risk children. Zero accountability.
Btw .. we are currently hearing the whispers of women shouldn’t vote, child marriage is ok, and there’s no such thing as marital rape …travel for women is being restricted. We do not confront religious delusions enough …we excuse it. It’s nuts.
The danger is certainly growing
He clearly went on the run because he came to terms with the fact he is a rapist and knew cops would likely start looking for him since she was 18 and likely resistant. Glad he was caught.
You're giving the pervert too much credit. He "came to terms" with the fact that the young woman was no longer the little girl he had lusted for.
Back in the mid-90s when I was in high school, a friend who had been in this local church her whole life convinced our friend group (about 6 of us) to start attending the weekly youth group and then regular services on Sundays. One of the youth group leaders (he was 26 at the time, we were freshmen) had a massive crush on this friend. By the end of the school year, his stunts had escalated to serenading her with love songs in front of the entire youth group, and saying that he could show up to our high school graduation with an engagement ring if she'd have him. 🙄 At the time, I remember just being so damn jealous because I had a huge crush on that guy. Now that I'm 43, and hearing this story, I feel nothing but icky at all the behaviors that all the other adults turned a blind eye to.
26 is old enough to control himself.
I would only say that we have a very unhealthy attitude towards teenage sexuality in the USA. It's causing all kinds of problems.
@@RobespierreThePoof Of course, they turn 18 and the same thing happens. Pump and dump, followed by emotional instability for the woman and then several years of being passed around as a party favor. The only difference is we don't give women a legal casus belli to go after the men who do it to them.
I'm not defending the man in the story, but to add to what you're saying, it's noot just teenage sexuality we have problems with, nor is this limited to the US. This is *all* of the west.
My folks called them cultist weirdos...they were't wrong.
every accusation is a confession
Beware with that idea: we must always follow the ifull investigation roccess because many people got their lives destroyed by it while being innocent...
Bull$h!t.
When parents fail to recognize the 'power
imbalance' that exists in these situations, the child is the victim, the parents and the pastor are both culpable.
“Youth pastor” are two words that makes the hair come up on the back of my neck
Turns my stomach.
The parents need to be prosecuted for allowing this to happen. They knew what his intentions were and they allowed him to abuse her.
They pretty much pimped their daughter out to this pervert.
EVERYONE who knew about it and did nothing to stop it should be charged as accessories. That entire church and their congregation should be investigated. If this gets swept under the rug, then the criminals win
These religious people seem to feel entitled, lack empathy, and have a sense of grandiosity. It is unfortunate that narcissistic behavior seems to be rewarded in our society.
My step neice was being sexually abused by her father. When she broke her silence 7 years in, her mother took her to the family priest instead of going to the authorities. The priest suggested... you guessed it, prayer. I didn't find out this was happening until he was finally arrested.
Sexual abuse it sexual abuse, no matter where it's perpetrated.
School, in the home, in church. Go straight to law enforcement
I was 17, a friend of mine got in trouble and asked me to take her to a clinic. Told her I'd have to think about it. Went to my pastor and told him her complete story. He said if I took her I wouldn't be welcome in the church. Then he said she needed to confess to her church for bringing sin into it. My friend, a sweet 16 year old girl was raped by a Deacon in her church is the blame! I looked at my former pastor and told him I might go to Hell, but you're going to be sitting right next to me. Haven't looked back.
@terrypetersen2970 These men truly believe that the girls are to blame. Isn't that a cool little rule they created for themselves? There was a girl in my neighborhood from a southern baptist family that used to show the neighborhood kids how she humped. She was 9 or 10 at the time. A mutual friend was at her house, and this girl called her 5 year old brother into her bedroom and instructed him to undress her. As soon as he started removing her clothes, the friend got up and left. She told the rest of us what happened, and I don't think any of us went over to that house again. Her behavior was just too much for us. The younger brother killed himself in 2019, leaving a wife and two kids behind. Terrible.
There ain’t no hate like Christian love.I’m glad you saw through their bs and walked away!
@@terrypetersen2970 Thank you for stepping up and being a true friend. It took me 44 years to tell which was 26 years after some old friends, drinking buddies and drug using buddies spoke up about institutional sexual abuse. A Catholic Diocese is in bankruptcy proceedings selling off and closing churches as two years ago the Supreme Court of Canada found the Diocese vicariously liable as the former Orphanage was essentially under their control.
I hear so many stories about Pedophile youth pastors! Just horrible! Thanks for sharing.
I live in Brisbane, Australia. I would have found him for her!! It’s well known here that if a middle aged man goes to the Philippines, he’s usually going for young girls. I’m glad she’s on her way to receiving justice
Jeez,. Is it really that much of a thing in the Philippines?
I feel bad for single men who just want a beach holiday! An entire county ruled out because it would ruin your reputation.
@@RobespierreThePoofaussies who aren't pdf files go to bali it's cheap and they are used to making sure passed out aussies don't drown on their beaches.
Mate of mine woke up on the beach after trying the local homebrew, a dozen locals nearby his wallet and case of beer missing. Worried he asked where's my beer a local said in the fridge and pointed to a pile of sand. They buried his stuff with his beer to keep it cool.
@@RobespierreThePoof Yes it is. Here in The Netherlands there were tv ads aimed at non-pedo people who booked a holiday to the Philippines to go to the police either in the Philippines or back home if they saw western men with Philippine children. News outlets have reported on the problem as well.
I commend this young woman for speaking up and pressing charges. And if I were her, I'd sue that "church" into bankruptcy.
I was once shamed by a pastor in church before he preached because I was warring long shorts exposing my knees😢 I was a young mother and in the quiver full cult, I was being blamed for his lustful thoughts in front of the congregation 😮 I walked out because I was in the front row and he wasn’t stopping his ranting.
Nobody should shame somebody for wearing clothes that cover the bits you dont show in public.
As long as it's covered then it shouldnt be an issue unless their only wearing a speedo while rocking a stiffy while talking to everybody they see 😂
Oh no! Not your knees!!
*Wearing. Warring means being actively at war. #boneappletea I hope you were able to get away from that quiverfull crowd. They're straight up crazy. Here's to your freedom!
Well we all know knees are super provocative and sexy so I totally see where he was coming from / s
Oh !! we have another contender for the vice president for the republican party
This guy should run with Noem as his VP.
Hahaha True
Biden showered w his pre teen daughter you sound like you can relate
I think I am gonna... 🤢🤮.
Utterly disgusting! The inner strength of this woman astounds me. For her to go through this ordeal and fight for justice which is often denied for so long is just another example of our country failing women.
At 18, she was TOO OLD for him. 😒
That’s what I was thinking. The illness was just an excuse.
Yep. That’s why he called off the wedding.
Thats the whole reason dude wanted her to be homeschooled… so that she wouldn't learn from friends/others that what was happening to her was wrong.
This is the real grooming that is actually happening. You’re absolutely right. It’s disgusting.
Youth pastor. Those two magic words.
Not exactly what I wanted to learn about with my morning coffee but I feel a duty to know about these behaviours and soundly denounce them at every turn. Thanks, Hemant ❣️
Ive been there. My father did the same ,he said no one would believe me. He also threatened to kill me or send me to a girls home. He groomed me to believe I owed him for him " saving me," from my mother.
Sorry I feel it's infinitely worse when you get told by someone in your family tells you how you should feel sorry for the person who victimized you cause they were "sick" at the time 😢
Religion will Destroy the Workd
Yep! And there are fundamentalist Christians literally pursuing a third world war to bring Armageddon and the return of geebus. They're that insane and cruel.
Okay, but as an Australian ... what the heck was my government doing? It took the Philippines authorities to catch him? Shameful.
I bet he left because she was "too old" for his tastes 🤢🤮
Bingo.
Yup
marriage would ruin his ministry but assaulting a minor wouldn't? make it make sense
I think he wanted her out of school so she wouldn't develop a crush on a boy her own age. Being around her peers, she would have seen how strange it was for an older man to want to date her.
A good friend of mine became Christian. Only after going a megachurch did he begin talking about how morally superior he was to non-believers. He even said he was more moral than all of us, his lifelong friends.
He was a decent person before, but now I can't be sure because only immoral people talk about how moral they are.
All evilgelicals are the lowest of the low.
Evangelicals are the lowest of the low.
Kudos to the Philippines authorities for stopping this monster from entering their country.
They’re very much on the alert, because droves of paedos come to the Philippines because the poverty there causes parents in the countryside to sell their children to pimps who promise that the children will have a nice job in the big city. And the catholic church encourages (forces) the ignorant people to pop out as many babies as possible, which will keep them poor and willing to sell their children.
So glad that this creep will be held accountable for his awful crimes. Oh, btw, as a former Queenslander, thought you'd like to know that Brisbane is pronounced Brisb-n (forget about a and the e).
‘Youth Pastor’ is a RED FLAG.
That position should never exist
Sarah is so brave and strong. I wish her the best.
Essentially the same thing happened at my church about 15 years ago. The youth pastor offered to give spiritual counseling to a 14 year old girl. So you can guess what happened.
For the record, I am an atheist. I was a Christian for over 20 years.
@@perfectblindguy good for you that you got out
@@kellydalstok8900 I wish i never got started in Christianity. The pastor back in the day said that if you have any problems, all you have to do is put Jesus first and he will take care of it. That is easy for the pastor to say since he had a cushy job and everything handed to him. But it doesn't work for the rest of us.
Child marriage is legal in like 26+ states.
I'm guessing red states. Right?
As a former member of the cult "Jehovah's Witnesses" (I was born into it); I am well familiar with the topic of child SA within the congregations and the cover up which extends -to this day- to the top of the religion. JWs are governed by and live under the control of, an entity called the governing body, located in New York state. In the local congregations around the world, the governing body is represented by the "elders" who are always men. If someone within the congregation commits an infraction (against their very strict rules); they would be held accountable by the elders in an arrangement called a Judicial Committee. If you are underage, they don't care how young, you cannot have your parents with you. In the case of SA, the elders invoke something called the two witness rule. An obscure verse which I cannot hope to remember after all these years, says something to the effect that a matter can only be established as a fact if there are two witnesses. There are, of course, exceptions to that. If the two witnesses were not JWs, they cannot be believed, for example. And if the two witnesses are women and the man says it never happened, they would believe the man over two women who witnessed the assault (generally speaking). Check out the Pennsylvania's Attorney General's office is currently at this time, investigating JWs in Pennsylvania and trying to build a case for all of this mentioned above, which as I said goes all the way to the top. Sorry to hijack your comments with this. It really triggered this response in me and I think this is worth a mention. Thanks for what you do.
Thank you Hemant for speaking about Christians addressing issues that other Christians do. It was my main focus for over 20 years to get them to see they need to make amends and heal the trauma caused by their own people. It is long past time for them to take responsibility for the trauma to their religion caused by their own.
As an X-tian - I 👍!
Thank you.
@@jackieade6599 The best way to say thank you is to get a large group of people to fearlessly walk into any church and challenge the leaders to make amends for the trauma that ignoring what the doctrine of discovery has done to the religion as a whole and to its victims. It has been allowed to fester for far too long,
Religion destroys everything it touches
@@TwisterTornadothat was Paul.
But 'family values' right?
The original reason for parental consent to minors marrying was because they were expected to be marrying other minors, and because once upon a time an unmarried mother would be unable to get work or get married to anyone else, and would find it really hard to support her child: and illegitimate babies were disinherited. None of those reasons have applied for generations.
The grooming is coming from inside the church.
Always has too! 🎯🎯🎯
Hemant, Brian from Portland. Please let this woman know that I am pulling for her and sending my karma from Portland. She has amazing strength. And thanks for all you do. Peace and love.
I don't think he knows the girl... He's just reporting on a news story.
@@druelia9485 No, from watching, he spoke with her. Anyway, wanted to put my positive energy out there for her.
@@brianbiechele1958sending "your" karma? You don't decide that. Who do you suppose yo be?
@@louisejones5773 Excuse? I was mearley attempting to send positive energy. If there is anything wrong in that....
There is an average of 460 of these marriages per year in America. The untold story did a documentary called " I was a child bride " well worth a look, this is a way for pedophile to escape justice. A child has no legal rights to enable them to leave until they turn 18 .
exactly. they can't work, drive, or get credit cards, they are trapped in the only contract we allow minors to enter. obscene.
Some people just don't deserve their organs
Literally the reason I’m not an organ donor. Who knows whom I might save? I wish it was legal to have reasonable stipulations about that. No clergy, no fascists, no bigots of any stripe for categories X, Y, or Z.
Not reproductive ones anyway
Hmmmm...why do I think that the pastor might consider himself a republican?
Almost assuredly.
Hard to say since uncle Joe loves 10 year old girls
Gross, this guy deserves jail time. The parents are just as much to blame here too. I'm glad that she may get some closure.
The parents should be jailed for child endangerment
The parents NEED TO BE IN PRISON!
WHAT?!?!?!?!
Yeah, I'm gonna bounce on outta here because NO! But also had to leave a like and comment to boost the channel.
I don't know how you do it, deep diving into this craziness that is "christianity", but it's appreciated that you bring these news stories to greater attention.
It's need to know. The world needs to know.
But this will get me too riled up; I don't think I have the capacity to deal with this correctly.
Well done to you, and all y'all out there that can handle the outrage.
I just don't have the can for when kids are involved/abused, especially when it's deemed okay by any religion.
One small correction. It is not in the bible that Mary was young and Joseph was much older. Their ages are not mentioned. That idea came later as part of the ancient church's weird purity culture, that a woman who was so close to god, could not possibly want to get laid.
The “women” at that time that were of marital age were girls. As soon as a girl started puberty, she was sold off to an older male as her new slave owner. Interesting how boys weren’t required to marry young yet girls were expected to be with a man twice her age! There are traditional men who still want it this way that’s why they’re so vocal about shaming women in their mid 20’s-30’s saying they’re are too old for them. If they could, they’d lower the consent age to 12… it’s disgusting
It is generally believed that Mary was the average age of married females at the time. 12 or 13
In the autobiography of Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's nineteenth wife, she recounts that he told everyone he felt "drawn" to her when she was SEVEN. She tried her best not to end up married to him - even marrying another man, but when that man died, she was forced to join Young's harem. After all, if a woman is only property, why not "buy" her as early as possible?
Yikes!!!
@@SonyaWongJamisonKeener I highly recommend her book, Wife No. 19, Ann Eliza Young. It's an eye-opening look at the early history of Mormons.
This poor woman is the same age as me apparently. Somehow that makes it even more horrifying.
I remain convinced that a person can get away with the most hideous crimes against humanity if they can only get themselves called Reverend or Pastor.
My grandfather was 23 when he married my grandmother at 15. It wasn't common then, but not unusual. Today, that would raise a lot of red flags even if there was no sexual abuse involved. The fact that any adult, be it the parents or the church involved here, said nothing shows just how dangerous the church is today.
A family member belonged to a church which had a youth pastor who regularly got up in front of the congregation and sobbed, moaned & wailed, saying we all were terrible sinners who didn't deserve forgiveness.
It turned out his wife was a girls' sports coach at a local high school. The youth pastor somehow managed to get time alone with several of his wife's students and abuse them and had full reason to be wailing to God for forgiveness.
We're not using the “groomer” term often enough when we discuss religious groomers, and it should also apply to any of their forced ideology tactics involving kids, public education, libraries, etc.
A child can't enter into a contract. Why is child marriage still legal anywhere? It sucks!
The parents are selling their child into sexual slavery. Isn’t there a law against sex trafficking that can be applied to them?
I think he knew Australia was looking for him for the US and he thought he could hide in the Phillipines
I agree with someone else who said "People who are predators don't go to southeast Asia to learn about their culture"
Purity culture is grooming.
Great coverage, Hemant. Thank you.
Fellowship of the Vine, I heard your priests like them young. You lost the right to criticize anyone. Better not catch any y’all in cell block one.
How did "everyone in the community know", and then did nothing to stop this? Good on her for coming forward about this, but if only an adult had stepped in *during the time* a child was being taken advantage of instead of years later or never.
They knew and they condoned it. Who actually cares about us girls being victims ??!? I know my church and the people that knew me didn’t care that I was getting 🍇 by my stepdad. He was a holy “man of god” surely it was my 11-17 year old fault🙄😒
Thank you for sharing this story. She is amazing. And thank you for having a heart that can be moved so deeply.
great reporting thank you brother
I know a church in Michigan where @buse of children has been swept under the rug for decades...this does not suprise me at all. 😒
Just name it already.
@Yosef9438 ...they've been in the news before over a couple of their youth pastors being caught with child p*rn...I even called the tip line suggesting they might want to investigate a former pastor who had a friend that was a well know child @buser who had free roam of the church...nothing ever came of it. 😒
@Yosef9438 ...this church has been in the local news over a couple of youth pastors who were in possession of illegal images on their computers...I even called the news tip line and suggested they investigate a former pastor of the same church who had a friend with a very troubled past with @buse of minors who had free roam of the church. Guess what happened. Nothing. 😒
Her parents are equally guilty.
In the Philippines this guy may have planned to snag other young gurls
Thank you for the update! I feel lighter and more at peace this Sunday morning simply hearing about Sarah feeling lighter and more at peace.
🙏🏽✌🏽💙 from Minnesota
These types of men, in this day and age, who lack boundaries about this kind of thing, are very strange, and their viewpoints disturbing. We are not 500-3,000 years in the past. Social mores, and lifespan, have changed over time, and thus, it is not any longer acceptable.
Yes go back to say the 18th century and you'll see plenty of teenagers getting married but the average life span was much shorter so if you wanted to have kids you didn't want to wait too long to get started if you wanted to be sure of being around long enough to actually raise them.
Apparently in that church common decency is an unknown phenomenon.
Sarah sounds like a really good person, despite her horrific childhood. That financial therapy sounds like a great way of helping people, and it speaks so well of her character that she's chosen to do that.
Thank goodness the creep was intercepted, hope he gets justice.
Thank you Hemant. ❤
Good ole Christian "morality".
Is this what Jess Edward’s meant when he said the freedom of marriage? Eww…
Thanks Hement, I hope it comes out all right for her.
When you came to that part in the statement where Shapiro says, "I believe you," tears sprang into my eyes. Those words mean something to not just our generation but many generations before, mostly for women and children, but sometimes for boys and men who had to live life secretly believing they somehow were the "dirty" ones who somehow caused these events.
biblical monstrosities reenacted!
Starting with the Roman - greed rape God story of mass murder,rapd.and slavery, that intrudes to collect taxes and is primarily focused on forgiving trespass...
Youth pastor is all you need to know
Why didn't the parents question? Because they were taught to NOT question Pastors and he was a YOUTH PASTOR. Above reproach by definition.
He probably got on the plane to flee Australia for the same reason he fled the US. How many victims did he leave behind in Australia?