Posted on 06/27/2008 9:20:59 PM PDT by Coleus
A Culpeper pastor faces a possible 310-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges. The Rev. Charles Shifflett, pastor of First Baptist Church in Culpeper and former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church there, pleaded guilty to a total of 20 felonies and one misdemeanor, prosecutors announced today.
Nine of the charges involving obtaining money by false pretenses from Calvary Baptist Church from 2002-05, while Shifflett was the pastor. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud involving a workers compensation award, and five counts of obtaining money under false pretenses from two separate insurance companies, and three counts of filing false state tax returns.
In exchange for Shifflett’s plea, prosecutors dismissed 19 felony charges against his wife, Janice Shifflett. Charles Shifflett will be held pending sentencing. Commonwealth’s Attorney Gary Close said he would decide how severe a sentence to request after consulting with the victims
Too bad he’s not a muslim. He could sue for the inconvenience.
They’ll reduce it to 200 years plus time served.
Pretty sick what that individual was like, or so that is the testimony found here: http://www.jeriwho.net/lillypad2/blogger.htm
On the left is a documentary about the abuse victims called “the lambs of culpeper”.
Crickets....... from the Catholic-bashers
The documentary about Shifflett’s abuse of children in his church and Christian school, The Lambs of Culpeper, is directly accessed here:
http://www.jeriwho.net/lambs/lambs.htm
The link will take you to the Lambs web page. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you can download the five 15-minute segments of this audio documentary about Charles Shifflett and what he did to those children. It is shocking, and it is sad, and he is STILL a pastor.
**Crickets....... from the Catholic-bashers**
That’s right. We are all up at 12:29am just waiting to respond to posts like this. This may come as a shock to you, but some of us have a life and are not tethered to FR 24/7.
Do you think “Catholic bashers” would somehow support him?
But now that I’m here, allow me:
The guy should be in jail. He committed a grievous sin against God and will be judged accordingly.
IMO he should repay at least double the amount that he stole (if not four-fold or five-fold). As to the abuse charges, he deserves to be in jail or worse. Do you believe he deserves different than what these people got/should get?
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"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.... He should make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double....if a man delivers to his neighbor money or articles to keep, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods..."Exodus 22:1-7 (excerpted)
crickets.........
It doesn’t hurt to put the state in the first comment or in the keywords. I added Virginia to the keywords.
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