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Posted on 08/22/2026 9:27:37 AM PDT by DFG
A Tennessee pastor who spent years traveling the country for his ministry will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him of raping a child, while his wife was found guilty of facilitating the abuse, authorities said.
Benjamin Garlick, 35, was found guilty Monday of seven counts of aggravated rape of a child, six counts of aggravated sexual battery, one count of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor and two violations of Tennessee’s Child Protection Act after a two-week trial in Rutherford County.
Circuit Court Judge Barry Tidwell sentenced Garlick to life in prison without the possibility of parole on the aggravated rape convictions, according to the Murfreesboro Police Department. He still faces sentencing on the remaining convictions on Nov. 10.
Garlick’s wife, 32-year-old Shaantal Garlick, was convicted of two counts of facilitation of aggravated rape of a child and two counts of aggravated child neglect.
She is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10.
The case began in August 2023, when the Murfreesboro Police Department’s Special Victims Unit launched an investigation into the sexual abuse of a child who was just 5 years old at the time.
Police said the abuse had occurred over several years.
As detectives dug deeper, they identified two additional victims, according to police.
Investigators also determined that Shaantal Garlick knowingly neglected a victim in a way that affected the child’s health and welfare and assisted in the sexual abuse, police said.
“The Murfreesboro Police Department thanks all members of the Child Protective Investigative Team (CPIT) for their tireless work throughout this investigation and trial, ensuring the victims’ voices were heard and justice was served,” Det. James Wilkinson, lead investigator, said after the convictions.
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Should have been an Islamic illegal asylum applicant. In Minnesota.
Pedophilia is an incurable sickness. I just can’t imagine doing something like that. Neither can his new buds in prison. Jailhouse justice will get him sooner rather than later. His beautiful bride will find the women prisoners equally hospitable.
No touchee the kiddees.
No. No. No.
FIVE YEARS OLD????
I volunteer for the Firing Squad, please!
Unbelievable that a woman would aid and abet such cruelty against a little girl. That is beyond sick.
I had a family situation that I finally understood these 50 years later. Long story that ends with approximately:
“You can go kill yourself today in the manner or your choosing, or tomorrow the last thing you see will be me shoving your severed penis down tour throat before I gouge your eyes out. But I’ll make sure you don’t bleed out too fast so you can remember that vision through the pain.”
That’s what my Dad did, give or take.
Dude took the option and offed himself.
That’s the sanitized version. The reality and back story are far more wacked.
It’s satanic and unholy.
I hope his time in prison is short, after a long session of prison justice, andhis time in Hell is eternal.🔥
May their time in prison be long and unpleasant.
letting him live, encourages more.
Oh look! Another Pedo Pastor.
Surprised is no one.
G-d is in His Heaven, and we will all face Judgement the end.
Of that I am certain.
The rest is just creepy people grifting for cash.
I understand that many times sub-humans like this end up at facilities like FCI Englewood , or similar,where they have sex offender management programs. Since the percentage of the population is high in similar sub-human behavioral issues the targetting for removal of that type of sub-human is lower than in “regular” prisons.
Disgusting! I hope she receives life in prison as well.
One for the some people just need killing file.
that needs to be on a tee shirt.
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