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Pastor admits molesting 2 girls
Monterey Herald ^ | 1/20/06 | GEORGE B. SANCHEZ

Posted on 01/20/2006 7:02:39 AM PST by MineralMan

A Salinas pastor accused of sexually molesting his adopted daughter and a handicapped girl pleaded guilty less than two months after authorities began investigating him.

Donald Domelle, 65, pastor of the Baptist Temple of Salinas, admitted to two felony counts of lewd conduct with a child and agreed to a minimum of 15 years in prison Thursday in a remarkably swift case that kept one young woman and a teenager from recounting in court their stories of repeated sexual abuse at the pastor's hands.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childmolestor; clergychildabuse; pastor; pedophile
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It's so hard today to trust anyone around minor children. Perhaps it has always been so, but there is certainly more news about it these days
1 posted on 01/20/2006 7:02:40 AM PST by MineralMan
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He should look forward to being raped in jail...


3 posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:29 AM PST by dubie
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To: jasoncann

Well at least he molested the opposite sex not as sick as molesting boys


4 posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:44 AM PST by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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or from a church that moves such individuals around to sweep such matters under the carpet.

There's too much of this stuff going on in all faiths. I've got to wonder why.

5 posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:48 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: MineralMan

Priesthood - attracting more perverts than a Public Library man's restroom.


6 posted on 01/20/2006 7:07:34 AM PST by Panerai
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To: MineralMan

Dare I say that I held my breath fearing it was another Catholic Priest? Whew. (sigh)


7 posted on 01/20/2006 7:08:12 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Panerai

This was a Baptist, so he was a "pastor."


8 posted on 01/20/2006 7:08:14 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: al baby

"Well at least he molested the opposite sex not as sick as molesting boys"

I'm not sure I can agree, especially considering that he molested his own adopted daughter. Either form of molestation is equally horrible, in my opinion.


9 posted on 01/20/2006 7:08:17 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: al baby

takes a real big man to molest a handicapped kid - of either sex.


10 posted on 01/20/2006 7:08:44 AM PST by bigbob (2)
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It's so hard today to trust anyone around minor children. Perhaps it has always been so, but there is certainly more news about it these days

I think it probably is more prevalent now than previously, because there's a lot less societal pressure for sexual restraint. Plus we hear about it more, because there's more media -- with a much wider reach -- to report on it.

Still, the ratio of pervs to good folk is probably still only one in tens-of-thousands.

11 posted on 01/20/2006 7:08:53 AM PST by r9etb
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" He should look forward to being raped in jail..."

Who the hell wants to rape a 65 year old man ?


12 posted on 01/20/2006 7:09:32 AM PST by sushiman
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"There's too much of this stuff going on in all faiths. I've got to wonder why."

I wonder, sometimes, if this hasn't always been going on, but wasn't really reported. I know that a youth minister in the church I went to in my youth was caught with a 14 year old girl. He was never arrested, and the whole thing was hushed up, even though many people knew about it. I was 16 at the time, and my 14 year old girlfriend knew the girl. That was back in the early 60s.


13 posted on 01/20/2006 7:10:38 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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forgot the sarcasim tag


14 posted on 01/20/2006 7:10:55 AM PST by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: Pyro7480

Speaking in general terms, a giveaway that he was not Catholic should have been that he was molesting girls.


15 posted on 01/20/2006 7:12:22 AM PST by Panerai
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I long for the days when this kind of thing was dealt much more swiftly and permanently.

Preacher, I would like you to meet my friend, Mr. WInchester.


16 posted on 01/20/2006 7:12:48 AM PST by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
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"I long for the days when this kind of thing was dealt much more swiftly and permanently.

Preacher, I would like you to meet my friend, Mr. WInchester."




When were those days? Seems to me that these things used to just be swept under the rug, with the victim left to her own devices.

I do not remember any cases during my lifetime when a pastor who molested kids was killed. Perhaps you do, but I do not.


17 posted on 01/20/2006 7:15:02 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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"Who the hell wants to rape a 65 year old man ?"

Lol...Please -- let's not think about this too much.

18 posted on 01/20/2006 7:15:15 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: al baby

I see absolutely no difference at all.


19 posted on 01/20/2006 7:15:15 AM PST by Space Wrangler
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I think hushing things up was the norm because the victim could not get anywhere legally except to be shamed as "asking for it."

I know of a disabled girl who was raped at the special school she attended. The rape was done by another student. Her friends learned about it and thoroughly beat him up. The parents never knew it happened to the gir.


20 posted on 01/20/2006 7:15:31 AM PST by sine_nomine (Every baby is a blessing from God, from the moment of conception.)
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