Posted on 08/10/2022 8:22:31 PM PDT by Morgana
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Vera House, a Central New York non-profit that helps survivors of domestic and sexual abuse hired and employed a registered sex offender for the past two years. Now the Syracuse-based organization is responding to community concerns that were brought to the attention of CNY Central.
Marcus Jackson is the man in question, and Vera House says he was terminated last week. In New York State, Jackson is a level two registered sex offender. Level three offenders are considered the most dangerous.
Jackson was convicted of unlawful sexual activity with a minor involving 15- and 16-year-old boys in 2000.
CNY Central profiled Jackson in early July, highlighting his role with Vera House.
“The one thing that Vera House is able to do is provide counseling for that, to help individuals through what they are experiencing and help them release that trauma or deal with it,” Jackson said during the July interview. “That starts toward the road of healing.”
“Our young folks are dealing with stuff the only way they know how,” said Jackson. “They learn this stuff from the generations that come before them. All of these are learned behaviors in how to inappropriately deal with trauma.”
Jackson, who is also a pastor, was part of the Clergy Emergency Response team in Syracuse too.
He and others would be some of the first people on the scene after violence in the City of Syracuse, often with families of young victims of gun violence.
Vera House hired Jackson in October 2020 and he worked with the organization up until August 1.
The organization’s leaders say they knew about Jackson’s criminal past before they decided to hire him.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnycentral.com ...
"His victims were 15- and 16-year-old boys."
And it happened 20 years before he was hired.
No complaints since then.
And you feel safe having this guy as a pastor and working with sexual assault victims? Really?
You don’t know anything about salvation and redemption? Doesn’t look like it.
He is a registered sex offender for life.
“He is a registered sex offender for life.”
Exactly AND
I also know 1 Timothy 1-10
What sort of men are to be admitted into the clergy. The church is the pillar of truth.
[1] A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. [2] It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, [3] Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but [4] One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity. [5] But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?
[6] Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil. [7] Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. [8] Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: [9] Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience. [10] And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.
Vera House said they terminated the sex offender. I assume terminate is what a Terminator does.
Oh ok. I guess that means it’s all good
And? He wasn't working with anyone under 18. Did you even read the article?
The very fact that you think it would be okay for a former sex offender to COUNSEL sex assault victims indicates how CLUELESS you are about the healing ministry.
I’m not the one being clueless.
If a man who at one time divorced his wife cannot hold a high and trused position in the church, even though he may be forgiven for that act, how on earth can you justify, before Scripture, that a sex offender can?
I had an abortion at 19. I was saved at 29 and experienced healing and forgiveness through a Bible study at the local pregnancy care center. I volunteered there, too. But they could never allow me to counsel women with crisis pregnancies, because if those women ever asked me, “What did you do with your crisis pregnancy?” I would have to tell them, “I had an abortion.” The fact that I was dead in my trespasses and sins at that time and now am saved does not matter in the slightest. In her vulnerable state she will only hear, “She had an abortion. Maybe I should too.” As much shame and heartache as that decision by the CPC board may have cost me, the point of the ministry is the other woman’s wellbeing, and the life of her child. Forgiveness does not always equal trust or re-establishment in this life.
Get over yourself.
We don't know that.
I wonder if he was paid to go away. And, if so, if donor and/or taxpayer money was used to do it.
What a shame. You could have told them truthfully that you had made the biggest mistake of your life. People share their testimonies for a reason. Silencing them is just plain stupid.
Get over yourself.
I'm not the one that has no idea what forgiveness and atonement mean.
AGAIN, he didn't hide what he did in 1998. He confessed it to them. How biblical.
I hope your day is blessed.
Here is wisdom.
Thank you for sharing that.
I’m sorry that you went through that experience of an abortion.
"Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Mark 8:38
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