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And now, many of them, including Louis Lamonica Jr. and a deputy sheriff who once lived on the church grounds, are behind bars, accused by the police of a litany of ungodly offenses, including sexual abuse of perhaps two dozen children and the mutilations of cats for satanic rituals. Eddie Robinson, assistant pastor at the 5,000-member Harvest World Outreach Ministries in nearby Hammond - to which many Hosanna members migrated - says what happened is clear. He told congregants on Sunday that a prophecy of "witchcraft" problems had been revealed in recent weeks. "When the leadership of that church kept...

Channel 4 has a located a statewide list of teachers accused of sex crimes. The list of crimes range from rape, murder, arson, drug trafficking, assault, gay pornography, and even attempting to buy children for sex crimes. State Representative Donna Rowland is leading a new task force studying teacher abuse of students. "Our goal is to find out how rampant it is and if there are any guidelines we need to put into place so that we are protecting our children when we send them off to classrooms," said Rowland. In the past 5 years, 46 Tennessee teachers have lost...