Posted on 06/24/2024 5:06:47 AM PDT by Morgana
Yesterday, detectives with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children arrested Jonathan Edward Elwing, senior pastor of Palm View Baptist Church, for possessing child pornography.
On Thursday, Law enforcement received a tip that the pedophile pastor used cryptocurrency to buy child porn online. They acquired a warrant and executed it the very next day, seizing his devices and, so far, finding at least four images of child porn on his cell phone.
Prior to being arrested, Elwing, 43, resigned from Palm View church. A quick perusal of his social media accounts shows that his church was enrolled in Founders Ministries church search*, and Elwing would frequently share quotes from Voddie Baucham, Jonathan Edwards, Matt Chandler, and Mark Driscol, as well as posting quotes likes these in the days before his arrest.
*Note: Founders Ministries explicitly says that it does not vet churches who voluntarily list themselves on the Founders church search.
Elwing is married with four children, including one he recently adopted, and it appears he has absolutely destroyed their lives and turned them upside down.
The church has not yet released a statement.
Please keep the family and his church in your prayers.
I wish just once these articles would also so "please keep the victims of child sex abuse in your prayers" why is it they always forget about the true victims here?
“...why is it they always forget about the true victims here? “
I agree. It’s like they are chopped liver.
When child porn purveyors are arrested, it ought to open a massive network investigation worldwide. A RESCUE effort should be launched for every child depicted.
Porn and sexual exploitation have become so acceptable to American society (though not to the Remnant) that is victims are seen as dehumanized objects.
It was a one day investigation but the pastor had already resigned. The pastor knew someone was going to report him.
Elwing is married with four children, including one he recently adopted, and it appears he has absolutely destroyed their lives and turned them upside down.
“If only priests were allowed to marry”
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