Joseph Kade Abbott
Posted on 02/04/2023 6:15:20 AM PST by Morgana
FIRST ON FOX: At least nine religious leaders were arrested in the U.S. last month for alleged sex crimes against children, ranging from grooming to child porn to rape, Fox News Digital has found.
Former "Dances with Wolves" actor Nathan Chasing Horse was arrested Tuesday in Las Vegas on allegations he sexually assaulted young Indigenous girls spanning several states while claiming to be a spiritual healer.
According to a search warrant obtained by the Associated Press, police said Chasing Horse, who played Smiles a Lot in the 1990 film, had followers who referred to him as "Medicine Man" or "Holy Person," and he "used spiritual traditions and their belief system as a tool to sexually assault young girls on numerous occasions."
He is also accused by police of pimping out his victims to other men and recording the assaults.
Daniel Butler, an after-school program director at the Fullness of Joy Ministries Church in Queens, New York, was arrested last month and charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
Butler is accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl who attends the after-school church program he directs, as well as Butler’s private daycare at his home, New 12 Long Island reported.
Garrett Biggerstaff, a pastor at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Fairfield, Illinois, was arrested Jan. 5 and charged with two counts of grooming after he was accused of sexually exploiting two children.
The church said it suspended Biggerstaff immediately and has scheduled formal action on his termination, KFVS 12 reported.
Joseph Kade Abbott was a volunteer group leader at the Abundant Life Church near Charlotte, North Carolina, before he was arrested on Jan. 9 and transported back to Maryville, Tennessee, on a charge of sexual battery by an authority figure.
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“Religious leaders”, eh?
Now there’s some real groomers. Glad they were caught.
I make the coffee, I guess I’m a “Religious Leader.”
You bet. Some real non ‘religious leaders’ groomers.
This is what propaganda looks like.
How many were actually “religious leaders”. The first guy mentioned wasn’t religious, he was “spiritual” which is what non religious people call themselves.
How many stories has Yahoo run on the number of teachers accused of sex crimes? The last time I looked that number was vastly outstripped religious people yet the MSM never mentions it......I wonder why? /s
Glad the creeps were caught and are being dealt with; however, NO ONE in congress, or any other government entity, has the right to throw stones. The leader of the Democrat party. As everyone knows, is a creepy, known, molester. They are just better at hiding their sins.
The music director in our church is gay, out...and married to a guy. The director’s “husband”, though not a member, helps with the sound system at big events. Christmas Eve, the “husband” was sitting at the control booth. There was a male teenager sitting with him. Vacant chairs were scarce but there was one in front of the control booth. I kindly asked both of them if anyone was using the chair. The “husband” didn’t hear me...I got a scowl and a wave of the hand from the teenager. I can’t say what the scowl was about, but I definitely got a bad vibe from the kid.
I fear, one day, there will be some molestation revelations from this husband and husband team. Unfortunately, it will not be the first molestation case that’s happened in our church.
This: “Garrett Biggerstaff, a pastor...”
Who chooses this for his name? Some really sick sub-human #@%ck, I suppose.
Well, right to a fair trial, and all that.
How many public educators were arrested?
The music director of the church is my youth was known to be gay and also taught catechism. Never laid a hand on us but he was creepy as all hell and couldn’t carry a tune with a wide handle.
Sorry to pry, but I am curious: why do you still attend there?
If convicted, castration seems a fitting punishment.
I sure hope there’s a specific level of Hell reserved for people that purposefully harm children and animals.
That’s a valid (and non-prying) question. The church was already my wife’s church when we met. I’m “new” to the church as I’ve only been a member for going on 40 years. The wife’s parents were original members when the church began at the end of WW2. The wife was raised in this church, as were our kids. It would literally take dynamite to dislodge her from there. Some battles I’m just not going to take on...LOL.
This was yahoo re-running a Fox news story
Which goes back to my point number 1 - This is what propaganda looks like.
Understandable.
Not to be confused with “teachers” or ‘LGBTQI leaders” who also get arrested for these types of crimes.
But, if you work for and serve the deep state, then anything goes.
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