Sheesh … let them slide for a couple of days, and the stories about Holy Men behaving badly really back up.
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Rockledge priest accused of fraud
New details have emerged from police who said a local priest lived a lifestyle well beyond his means while defrauding an elderly widow out of more than $88,000.
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Elderly Preacher In Wheelchair Guns Down Fellow Preacher, Witnesses Say
An 80-year-old retired preacher died after being shot in his face by a fellow resident of his retirement home — another preacher who uses a wheelchair, police and other residents said.
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A priest who once said homosexuals had to live a “celibate life” to be good Catholics has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old boy at a Bronx church about 30 years ago.
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Minister in bread ‘penance’ case allegedly had role in other cases
Years before the school minister at Phillips Exeter Academy encouraged a student to bake bread as an act of penance for allegedly groping another student, the Rev. Robert H. Thompson played a questionable role in two other sexual assault cases at the New Hampshire boarding school, according to a former student and a former faculty member.
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Priest in Dutchess County removed from two churches after sexual abuse claim
A Dutchess County priest was removed from the two churches he runs on Tuesday after he was accused of sexually abusing a boy 30 years ago.
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Former music minister sentenced for child sex
Ending a child sex case called a “pit of horror,” a former Oldham County minister was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison, the maximum he could have gotten under a plea agreement.
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Trial started for minister accused of skimming federal funds
Trial began Tuesday for the Hattiesburg minister accused of skimming money from a housing project financed with federal funds.
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Police: Pastor charged after failing to report alleged assault on girl, 14
A Valley pastor was charged Tuesday for failing to report an alleged indecent assault on a 14-year-old girl during a teen group field trip in July, according to Stonington state police.
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Diocese agrees to 6-figure settlement in sex abuse case involving priest, lawyer says
The Diocese of Trenton has agreed to a six-figure settlement with a man who said he was sexually assaulted by a priest four decades ago, according to the victim’s attorney.
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Florida diocese investigating ex-head of Rhode Island school
An Episcopal diocese in Florida says it is investigating a former headmaster at the elite Rhode Island boarding school St. George’s, which is at the center of an abuse scandal.
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Rockville church youth minister charged with sexual abuse of teen
A 32-year-old Montgomery County man was arrested Wednesday for his alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl at a Rockville church where he served as a youth minister.
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Former US pastor gets 60 years in prison in child sex case
A former Las Vegas-area church pastor has been sentenced to at least 60 years in state prison for sexually assaulting three young girls in his congregation before fleeing to Mexico.
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Mobile pastor facing child sex abuse, sodomy, rape charges
A Mobile pastor was arrested Wednesday on first-degree sodomy, first-degree rape and sex abuse of a child charges.
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Rabbi suspected of kidnapping, murder plot in New York divorce scheme
A rabbi and another Orthodox Jewish man were arrested in New York in connection with a plot to kidnap and murder a man whose wife wanted to divorce him, federal officials said on Wednesday.
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Iraq: US pastor spends $4,000 buying weapons for Christian militia
A US pastor has spent $4,000 of his own money buying weapons for a Christian militia engaging ISIS forces in Iraq.
William Devlin is a pastor at Infinity Bible Church in the Bronx, New York City. He has supplied the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) with a selection of AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
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Ohio church ordered teen to apologize to youth pastor’s wife after he raped her, mom says
An Ohio judge sentenced a “delusional” former youth pastor to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage member of the church where he served as a volunteer.