Posted on 11/12/2013 6:27:40 PM PST by Morgana
(WXYZ) - It is an unthinkable crime that robbed a 2 year old of her innocence. Even more unbelievable, it happened inside a local church. Tonight we're exposing the vicious attack. A sinister crime that has a mom fighting for justice, and seeking answers from the church she grew up in and considered family.
"I really became active in the church when I was like 11 or 12. They've just been a big part of my life." she tells 7 Action News. The identity of the 23 year old mother is not being revealed for this story in order to protect her daughter's identity. She says she now feels betrayed by the Detroit Church Grandvale Corps Community Center, a place she and her daughter once called home.
"I was a member before she was born. Throughout my pregnancy I worked there. I volunteered there. My daughter started going there when she was 6 days old and from there we'd just go. Every Sunday" she says.
Ironically, it was on a Sunday inside the holy place that she says the devil's hands touched her 2 year old child. She says on a quiet morning last July, parents were attending services and kids were in Sunday School. Afterwards, there was no sign of her little girl until she found her alone in the dark of the church basement.
"She was fully nude and screaming for me. I honestly think I went into shock. Seeing her standing there crying I can only imagine how she felt. Like my mom wasn't here for me" she says. Seconds later, the pastor was telling her "We don't need to call the police. You can't go up and down the street talking about this. Meet me up here tomorrow."
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Something is not ringing 100% true on this story. I’m holding off believing anything on this until more information is developed. It could be a bad actor somehow got into this “community center” and got access to the toddler. It also could be nothing much more than someone trying to hit the lawsuit lottery. We’ll see.
Well the Bible says pastors are judged differently.
IMO people who are in leadership positions of any kind should be held to a higher standard. Doesn’t mean the average Joe can’t do the right thing of course.
What it does mean, is that he fully intended to cover it up.
Makes sense.
Did you forget a sarcasm tag?
Who or what do you think he actually feared?
Are you bipolar? You accuse me of making excuses for the rapist and the pastor and you ask about sarcasm?
seek help
I could pray that you seek it, but it's fairly obvious you won't.
http://www.amazon.com/Predators-Pedophiles-Rapists-Other-Offenders/dp/0465071732
Sexual Predators go where their prey is.
They look and act like everyone else.
The reason that the problem with them has gotten so bad is because people desperately want to believe that other people who seemed so nice and so safe were as nice and as safe as they appeared.
They can be your pastor, your policeman, or your spouse. They can be male or female. They can be a teen or a grandparent.
And every preconception about them you cling to, helps ten of them slip by.
Since you have now weighed in with your considered opinion...allow me to re-state mine, with you in mind.
You, sir or madamn, are an idiot, in my considered opinion.
The sexual abuse of children was specifically addressed by Jesus Christ himself.
Your “observation” is fatally flawed, in that you appear to pretend that the evil act of child abuse is an inconceivable situation, amongst a group who openly call themselves Christians, and who you seem to claim a fellowship with.
You are also guilty, IMHO, of attempting to excuse the inexcusable, under color of ...what?
Exactly what do you base your very superior compassionate support of excusing evil on?
Certainly not biblical scripture, and certainly not under color of any spiritual belief system that comprehends good versus evil to be objectively true.
I'm not familiar with that denomination. Do they worship community?
A few years back I attended a meeting describing new measures by our church to further ensure our children’s safety. The new requirements included background checks. I read the documents and raised my hand.
“It strikes me that if Jesus and his twelve disciples were to apply to work in our Children’s Church, the only one who would be eligible is Judas.”
Judas was never convicted of a crime.
People who wish to target children are frequently drawn to jobs or positions which allow access.
So does mine and it’s been that way for as long as I can remember.
Yep and it’s why one never puts a child OR and adult in this kind of situation. Having multiple adults attend to children safeguards both. Puts a roadblock between a predator or an adult being falsely accused.
Thanks.
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