Posted on 10/30/2024 9:16:30 PM PDT by Morgana
Authorities have sentenced a former youth pastor to 50 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing four minors, including impregnating a 14-year-old girl.
According to the Ellis County District Attorney, Marvin Scales, 53, of Waxahachie, Texas, pleaded guilty to two counts of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child. The investigation began after a local hospital alerted police that a 14-year-old girl was in labor. According to hospital staff, Scales was present with the child and was “overly involved” in the delivery process.
Detectives obtained a warrant for the baby’s DNA and confirmed that Scales was the biological father.
The DA’s statement says Scales had acted as a youth pastor at a local church. Once the congregation learned about the first victim, more victims came forward, the press release says.
He often took the congregation’s children on overnight trips and let the children sleep over at this house. Victims disclosed that Scales would regularly have sex with them on these trips and overnight stays, according to the statement.
The release also notes that Scales installed a security system at his home. Scales used the security system to record a collection of his sexual assaults, which led law enforcement to discover more of Scales’ victims.
This was also not Scales’ first crime against children.
Authorities said a simple background check would have alerted church leaders to his past crimes of sexual abuse.
Scales has been a registered sex offender in Texas since 2006 when authorities sentenced him to 10 years in prison for abusing an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl back in 1998.
While the press release states Scales was a youth pastor at a local church, it does not disclose the church’s name. Several people claiming to be associated with the alleged church commented on social media that Scales was not a youth pastor but an active musician at the church.
The church in question had tagged photos of Scales playing the keyboard during its services. MinistryWatch contacted the church requesting clarification on Scales’s association. At the time of publication, we had yet to hear back.
Scales is not eligible for parole and must serve all 50 years of his sentence.
Marvin will have some serious explaining to do on Judgement Day.
Marvin needs to get right with Jesus before he gets to Judgement day
Correct.
We had a few shady youth leaders when my daughters were involved in the LifeTeen program at our Catholic Church in Scottsdale yrs ago. One of them even left his wife and 3 kids after a few yrs in his position. These guys were volunteers or received a small stipend, which made me wonder why they were so involved in the program, but I kept my eye on them when it came to my girls. Deviancy knows no borders.
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Many decades ago when I was teaching in Florida, I had a 12 year old student get pregnant. Nobody could figure out how it happened as she was always with her mother, at school or at church. It was their pastor, sad to say.
They caught him by the organ.
>> They caught him by the organ.
You BAD BOY!!! rofl
Do you think it’s a good idea if we keep score between Catholic and Protestant child and sexual abusers?
Or ought we to realize there is ONE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and help each other stamp out this evil?
Screw the damned tribalist Christians who make it about “which tribe”!!! Screw them bigly. Are you listening, Morgana? Because for you it’s ALL about Catholic vs. Protestant. Knock that shit off!
This is not about “keeping score” this is about protecting our kids.
I’ve posted about sex abuse in all religions, even non christian ones.
>> I’ve posted about sex abuse in all religions, even non christian ones.
Bullshit.
99% of your posts involve non-Catholic churches, whereas exactly because the Catholic tribe proscribes heterosexual marriage, the vast majority of sexual malfeasance in organized Christian houses of worship involve CATHOLICS.
Explain that.
“Explain that.”
well the majority of my stories comes from either Ministry Watch, protestia, church leaders, religion news service or Roys Report which is protestant or all religions.
I’m getting my news from Religions sites and not the lame stream media. If they felt it was important to report it then I passed it on.
Some of the ones I posted were of guys getting busted for CP and that is to me worse than SA because with CP the kid is abused over and over after the abuse has ended for all these creeps to see.
It seems more and more of these guys are getting busted for CP when I sure don’t remember this 10 or 20 years ago, although I’m sure it happened. The internet has a lot to do with it to be sure.
Actually it’s “ them” again boo-boo.
You might want to consider reformulating that.
Regards,
Quit dividing. Sexual deviancy, perversion, and abuse happens across both. The problem exists because of no oversight. No adult that isn’t their parent should be allowed alone with a child. When I was in children’s ministry, this was a hard rule. Doors stayed open, 2 adults. Leader roamed around groups to say Hi.
What is wrong with these people? Why can’t they just find (adult) wives?
As for the punishment, if I had my way, the pastor would be swinging in front of the courthouse before nightfall.
If you feel the need to lecture someone regarding division — lecture the OP. I don’t need it.
Also -- Historically, most churches don't have such a position.
Dont be like Marvin.
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