Posted on 05/23/2024 12:33:35 PM PDT by Morgana
A Las Vegas judge sentenced Pastor Bobby Cornelius Smith of New Beginnings Ministries Church of God in Christ to one year of probation on Monday, the result of a plea deal that will see the disgraced pastor avoid jail time but have to register as a sex offender. Despite this grotesque development, Smith was not run out of the church or made to resign, but instead will remain the pastor. According to KLAS:
A grand jury previously indicted Smith for 11 felony charges, including nine counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted sexual assault, and one count of child abuse, neglect, or endangerment. Three women, one family member, and two women whom he referred to as “God daughters,” reported that he sexually assaulted them.
A family member testified in front of the grand jury that Smith forced her to use sex toys multiple times starting when she was 17 years old and a senior in high school, according to transcripts obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators. She said that Smith told her, “God is telling me that it is important for you to do this,” and insisted that the sex toys would prevent her from ruining her life and giving into “urges.” Smith later showed her how to use the toy and would tell her to meet him at hotels, she said.
Furthermore:
Another woman testified that her family became involved with New Beginnings Ministries when she was 16 years old. At 17, she said, Smith texted her a photo of a sex toy. She told him that she did not want to use it. Smith later brought up the sex toy again, telling her that sex toys are not a sin and that he wanted to show her how to use one, she said.
Despite his disqualifying behavior, Smith’s has been preaching regularly since being charged early last year, much to the shame of his effeminate elders and weak-willed congregants. With having to register as a sex-offender, he will not be able to be alone with any children other than his own.
Must be the Christian thing to do.
This is okay because it’s not the Catholic Church.
He can be the prison pastor. Get all you want.
I was born the wrong color!!! My pastor would have been run out of town!
Got it.
On Law and Order SVU episode “Unholiest Alliance” the guilty sex ring Bishop was reassigned to an island offshore from Chile and given counseling. The bondage loving homosexual priest who paid with embezzled Church funds for a young male prostitute bodybuilder dressed as a cowboy named Lance to whip him on a cowboy was told to repent.
“Carisi walks in holding his phone, saying that was Barba; the grand jury is on a roll and as of 5PM today they have indicted 3 assemblymen, a councilman, two judges. When Fin asks about the Bishop, Dodds says that is the bad news; The Vatican recalled him yesterday and he is en route to a treatment center then run on an island off the cost of Chile. They are stunned and Carisi asks that they knew to get the Bishop out but let Akintola fly back to JFK even though they had a warrant out of him, and how does that happen? Dodds replies it is on purpose; Akintola was a hired gun and it was a trade – a pawn for a bishop.”
Escapes jail time but not Eternal Judgment.
typo: to whip him on a cowboy saddle.
Religion and politics are the last refuge for scoundrels.
“A Las Vegas judge sentenced Pastor Bobby Cornelius Smith of New Beginnings Ministries Church of God in Christ to ONE YEAR of probation on Monday.”
My sentence would have been a .45 ACP round to his brainpan.
230 gr. FMJ
SICKENING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now *that's* a "New Beginning".
much to the shame of his effeminate elders and weak-willed congregants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effeminacy
In today’s climate, it is not out of the question to think that his skin color might have something to do with the extreme leniency shown him. And his congregation sounds like a bunch of morons.
Actually this is one of those “is it them Yogi?” stories.
Ok, woe betide those parishioners to allow this man to preach. That adds them to his guilt, and most of us know what Jesus said about those who lead children astray.
I had to stop watching that show many years ago; it started getting too graphic.
Not much of a pastor if he’s a sex offender!
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