Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Georgia youth minister (Pittman Park UMC church), 43, arrested for slapping reporter's rear on live TV
Fox News ^ | 14 December 2019 | Robert Gearty

Posted on 12/14/2019 7:02:45 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Thomas Callaway, a 43-year-old youth minister (Pittman Park United Methodist Church) from Statesboro, GA was charged Friday with sexual battery, a misdemeanor, in Chatham County, records show. “The conduct displayed toward Alex Bozarjian during her live coverage of Saturday’s Savannah Bridge Run was reprehensible and completely unacceptable,” the Savannah television station the employs Bozarjian said after the arrest.

Bozarjian told police the man had slapped and then grabbed her buttocks, the Associated Press reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alexbozarjian; bozrijan; butt; callaway; georgia; hit; methodist; thomascallaway
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last
To: Ouderkirk

She complains that she was “objectified”. Who talks like that? That sounds like she’s been reading too much feminist literature.
Humans interact. And not always in nice ways. She’d have been justified in slapping him back (even though he was only being playful).
But a criminal case? Aren’t our courts already overcrowded, do they have time for this kind of virtue-signalling?
And her life isn’t destroyed; there are people who suffer in far worse ways, all over the world, and her case is not even worth a mention.


41 posted on 12/14/2019 8:01:09 AM PST by CondorFlight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Sans-Culotte

Lookit, I saw that video.

Slapping, grabbing, swiping...HE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE WHAT HE DID!!!

Does he have some right to touch her ass, in any fashion?

I’ve had plenty of men touch me inappropriately. It’s embarrassing, hardly exhilarating....AND SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!

This guy’s a youth minister?

He’s an asshole.


42 posted on 12/14/2019 8:01:34 AM PST by Fishtalk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Mariner

I think he voluntarily came forward. Although probably not much choice with that video posted everywhere. The Boy Scouts “fired” him. Not sure about his church job yet.


43 posted on 12/14/2019 8:02:16 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Fishtalk

or an assholder?


44 posted on 12/14/2019 8:03:22 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: Dilbert San Diego
I think we all agree he should not have done that, but now the question is, is this incident really a criminal offense?

If someone did that to me, I'd settle for him paying a $500 fine or something like that. I wouldn't want to ruin his life, but I'd want to make it clear: women don't have to submit to strange men hitting them.

45 posted on 12/14/2019 8:04:32 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I’d have to see the offended rear before making a decision. Who knows. If it was the wide-load type...may’ve been an innocent accident.


46 posted on 12/14/2019 8:05:42 AM PST by moovova
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I have no problem seeing this pastor get arrested. As others have noted, such behavior is more than just rude. It can be frightening to the woman. You can look. But don’t touch.


47 posted on 12/14/2019 8:06:16 AM PST by Leaning Right ( I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sauropod
What this man did is a shame and not a very good witness for the cause of Christ.

--------------------------

Amen.

One day I was in my union office collating union newsletters. The VP, a big fat ugly guy, and I were putting it all together.

Suddenly, as I was standing over the table and collating, suddenly he grabs my butt and gives it a good fondle.

I jumped about a mile, shouted to cut it out....which he did. He did. I was mad as hell.

Here's my question, I was about 26 at the time. He was close to retirement, great big fat, ugly. WHAT ON EARTH GAVE HIM ANY IDEA I WANTED HIS HANDS ON MY BUTT?

What goes through, say,that movie guy's mind, he look somewhat like the VP of my union.

It's probably a bit much to arrest the guy for it but I say keeps your hands off my body unless I say do it.

48 posted on 12/14/2019 8:06:54 AM PST by Fishtalk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Is Way, way too much made of most of this stuff? Absolutely.

Should he have done this? Absolutely not!! Bigtime, bigtime stupid, especially given his church position,


49 posted on 12/14/2019 8:08:09 AM PST by RatRipper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fishtalk

..... and he looks like an @sshole.


50 posted on 12/14/2019 8:14:05 AM PST by Conserv ( b)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: CondorFlight

“But a criminal case?”

Yes

“Aren’t our courts already overcrowded”

Irrelevant


51 posted on 12/14/2019 8:16:53 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Robert DeLong

Pat can’t be 43 in that picture - super wrinkled up? looks more like 60.


52 posted on 12/14/2019 8:16:56 AM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Fishtalk
HE SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE WHAT HE DID!!!

I am not defending him, nor is anyone on this thread. I just found it curious that the reporter could not resist embellishing her story when it is right there on camera. She said he "slapped her and then he grabbed her". There is no "and then". He does not break his stride. He slaps her and keeps running. I guess reporters cannot resist injecting fake news into everything.

53 posted on 12/14/2019 8:19:07 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: A_perfect_lady

I agree with you. This incident can be a teachable moment for all of us, especially men who don’t think about boundaries with women. I certainly hope that this man is not going to be designated as a sex offender and have his life ruined over this.


54 posted on 12/14/2019 8:19:43 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

He just needs to claim he thought it was a guy, and the law won’t know what to do with him.


55 posted on 12/14/2019 8:22:17 AM PST by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: madison10
He looks like Pat Boone.

Wrong. He looks like a moronic pervert. Because he is.

56 posted on 12/14/2019 8:23:27 AM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Robert DeLong

He looks like the Liquid Metal Terminator in the Terminator 2 Movie.


57 posted on 12/14/2019 8:24:53 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Kickass Conservative

Looking at the Pic again, I just realized he could be the love Child of Peter Strzok and Adam Schiff.


58 posted on 12/14/2019 8:28:45 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: Kickass Conservative
To me he looks more like Peter Strzok than Pat Boone. 8>)

Image result for Peter Strzok Pictures

59 posted on 12/14/2019 8:31:09 AM PST by Robert DeLong
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I can’t say I blame him. If I’d been there I’d have slapped it myself.


60 posted on 12/14/2019 8:32:59 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson