Former youth pastor pleads guilty to sex crime (AK)

A former youth pastor was sentenced on Friday to six years- three years in prison and three years suspended- for his sexual involvement with a 14-year old girl. Keith Daniel Kiger, 31, of Winslow entered a negotiated plea of guilty to reduced charges of sexual indecency with a child before 4 th Judicial Circuit Judge William Storey. He was initially charged with second-degree sexual assault.

Kiger was a youth minister at a church the victim had attended only a few times, so it would have been hard to prove he committed the act while being in a position of trust, said Fourth Judicial District Deputy prosecutor David Harris. Kiger admitted to engaging in sexual contact with the victim as many as six times, according to the arrest report. Most of the contact reportedly occurred in the back of his van during the day in public parking lots across Fayetteville.

Under the deal, Kiger received credit for the 100 days he has served in the Washington County Detention Center, where he has remained since his arrest on March 12. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim and must pay restitution of $ 1, 500 after his release.

it's a big cover up by the MSM. Abuse occurs in every religion including orthodox Judaism. It's just that the RCC is the leader in the pro-life and pro-marriage movements as well as other areas so we have the target on our backs. Also, what is also not reported is that many of the bishops relied on “psychologists” for advise on the bad priests where we have to remember that these very “psychologists” are those who changed the diagnostic manual making homosexuality a normal behavior and where many of these same psychologists came from the make love, sexual revolution generation and saw nothing wrong with adults having sex with older teens. In addition, the psychologists also reported and advised the bishops that pedophiles could be sent away and be treated. Society now knows better. And there is no coverage about NYC teachers in NAMBLA who can't be fired by the NYC school system.

http://www.reformation.com/CSA/startPage.html

Baptist Clergy Abuse
http://www.cin.org/users/msmith/reformation/baptistsabuse.html

Catholic bashing and pedophile priests
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26955

Minister Rapes Teen
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0530minister-sexcharge-ON.html

Lutheran minister asked to quit sexuality task force
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/11/27/priest.abuse.ap/index.html

Sex scandals also affect Protestant clergy
http://www.freep.com/news/religion/prot5_20020405.htm

U.S. Protestants also facing sex abuse scandals
Expert: Frequency of abuse by Protestant clergy may equal that of Catholic priests
http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/040602/rel_040602027.shtml

Accusations filed against NY ministers
http://www.layman.org/layman/news/news-from-pcusa/accusations-filed-against-ny-ministers.htm

Protestant Clergy Abuse
http://polycafe.com/sacredfire/sacredfire-2002/3305.htm
Sex scandals also affect Protestant clergy
http://www.reformation.com/CSA/HowthescandalsaredifferentforProtestants.htm
U.S. Protestants also facing sex abuse scandals
Expert: Frequency of abuse by Protestant clergy may equal that of Catholic priests
http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/040602/rel_040602027.shtml
Catholic clergy singled out, historian says
http://www.detnews.com/2002/religion/0204/13/a09-457640.htm
Sex abuse spans spectrum of churches
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html

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