The Pedophile File

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Three excerpts from pdf
Baptist Identity:
How It Masks Clergy Sex Abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention
by Christa Brown | December 5, 2011

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In effect, predatory clergy put on the mask of God in order to commit their crimes. Baptist identity helps to secure those masks and keep them in place. A shared denominational identity keeps the mantle of trust on ministers’ shoulders, but among Southern Baptists, denominational identity is simultaneously disclaimed for purposes of clergy accountability or discipline. Then everything is up to the local church, and it is as though the denomination disappears.

Page 13 | Conclusion

Choices clearly exist. Yet despite the harm that is being done to so many, Southern Baptist leaders choose to promote their self-constructed version of “local church autonomy” as the singular component of Baptist identity for purposes of refusing what are now common-place institutional mechanisms for the prevention of clergy sex abuse. In so choosing, they allow religious doctrine to facilitate and mask clergy violence.

Page 21 | Note 71

In practice, the Southern Baptist construction of “local church autonomy” presumes the New Testament prescribes the doctrine so precisely as to allow churches to cooperate for the funding of ministers’ retirements, for international missions, for keeping Baptist historical records, and even for investigating churches with gays in their membership, but not for responsibly assessing reports alleging clergy sex abuse. Given the obvious human hand in these definitional parameters, one can only wonder why Southern Baptist officials reject a definition that would allow for the better protection of church kids and for ministry to the wounded. Alternatively, Southern Baptist officials could choose to emphasize other aspects of their faith identity, such as Jesus’ call to care for the “least of these,” or to emphasize other aspects of their human identities, such as their role as parents and as community-minded adults who care for the young.

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http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/gillard-orders-royal-commission-into-child-sex-abuse-5212308

Gillard orders royal commission into child sex abuse

Published: 7:48AM Tuesday November 13, 2012 Source: AAP / ONE News

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has called for a royal commission to uncover the truth into child sexual abuse.

It comes as her government has been facing mounting pressure to react to the growing outrage at the latest series of allegations of paedophilia, with the Catholic Church coming under the biggest criticism.

But Gillard said the scope of the commission will move beyond the Catholic church and target all institutions, including religious institutions, state-based organisations, schools and not-for-profit groups such as scouts and sporting clubs.

It will also look at the response of child services agencies and the police to accusations of abuse.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has said he would support such a broad-based inquiry.

It will be established by the end of the year, with the terms of reference to be developed in consultation with the states and territories, victims' groups, religious leaders and community organisations.

"Any instance of child abuse is a vile and evil thing - Australians know that," Gillard told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
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Once established, such a wide-ranging inquiry could run for years. A figure of 10 years has been touted, said ONE News Australia correspondent Steve Marshall.

Systemic failure to respond

Gillard sais she wants the commission to take as long as it needs, while reporting regularly to government.

"I don't want some artificial sense of deadlines to impede what could be good work that we want done," she said.

It is important to examine institutional responses to child abuse, she said, because there is evidence that adults other than the abusers had not done enough to protect children.

"It's not just the evil of the people who do it, there has been a systemic failure to respond to it and to protect children," Ms Gillard said.

"We need to learn the lessons about how institutions can best respond when there are allegations of sexual abuse of children."

'Bitter-sweet' victory

However, victims and their families said the commission's inquiry is a bitter-sweet victory.

"It's really, really important now that it moves forward very quickly, that it's very well resourced, and that we don't see it dragging on forever," said Anthony Foster, whose daughters were abused by a priest at primary school.

Later, Cardinal Pell said the public remained unconvinced the church had adequately dealt with sexual abuse.

"I believe the air should be cleared and the truth uncovered," he said in a statement.

"We shall co-operate fully with the royal commission."

Pell said the Catholic Church should not be "scape-goated" as part of the investigation, but said: "We'll answer for what we've done, we're not trying to defend the indefensible."

He also supported a statement from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference saying they believed a royal commission would help identify measures to better prevent and respond to child abuse.

The bishops said the church had taken "decisive steps" over the past 20 years to make child safety a priority, including working with police.

"While there were significant problems concerning some dioceses and some religious orders, talk of a systemic problem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is ill-founded and inconsistent with the facts," their statement said.

They called for police and child protection authorities to release information about how many cases they were dealing with and the situations in which the abuse occurred.

Parliamentary inquiry

Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu said a Victorian parliamentary inquiry that started in April to examine handling of alleged criminal abuse of children by religious and other non-government organisations had already demonstrated its value.

He pledged to work with the federal government to merge the work of that inquiry with the royal commission.

Meanwhile, Australia's leading child advocacy group called for retrospective legislation making the destruction of evidence illegal to be passed as a matter of urgency.

Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston said Monday's announcement would have caught some institutions off guard.

"Perhaps some of these organisations will be madly shredding documents as we speak," she told AAP.

"I'd like to make sure the evidence is maintained intact."

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NEW YORK -- The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" is taking a leave of absence from the show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Puppeteer Kevin Clash, 52, has denied the allegations, which, according to Sesame Workshop, were made in June by the accuser, who was then 23.

"We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action," Sesame Workshop said Monday. "We met with the accuser twice and had repeated communications with him. We met with Kevin, who denied the accusation."

The organization described the relationship as "unrelated to the workplace." Its investigation found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. But it said Clash exercised "poor judgment" and was disciplined for violating company policy regarding Internet usage. It offered no details.

"I had a relationship with the accuser," Clash said in a statement. "It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to characterize it as something other than what it was."

Sex with a person under 17 is a felony in New York if the perpetrator is at least 21. It was unclear where the relationship took place, and there is no record of any criminal charge against Clash in the state.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... ationship/

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Man who accused Elmo puppeteer of teen sex recants

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FWIW, First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, is ranked 100th largest megachurch in the Southern Baptist convention, and Prestonwood Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, is ranked as 4th largest, both in terms of population. First Baptist is oldest, endeared by old money, and Prestonwood is relatively young, propped up by the new.

Highlights most assuredly mine.

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Prestonwood Baptist: A Heroic Stand Amidst Parental and Church Betrayal...

Also in Dallas:


http://communities.washingtontimes.com/ ... ked-child/
The prayer of a sex trafficked child

Thursday, November 8, 2012 - A Heart Without Compromise; Advocating for Children by Jerome Elam

... A shadow passed over my body as it clung to a whisper of its former vital force. I felt the cold touch of the ground as my body struggled to hold on to the warmth that sought an exodus in response to the sleeping pills and vodka I had just ingested. It was all growing dark now and the wind drifted across my face as its arms reached out to carry me away from the pain that had defined my life for so long. A peace that I had never felt before began to settle into my body and I prayed for the others who had suffered beside me to escape the darkness that had held us all prisoners for so long.

For the previous seven years I had been the “property” of a pedophile ring that had trafficked me sexually since the age of five. My attempts to find an escape from their enslavement had only met with severe physical retaliation and death threats.

The child sex trafficking ring disguised itself as an organization for boys and girls called the “Kids in the saddle” that touted exposing children to horses as a therapy for “behavior problems.” How I had become trapped in this web of dark perversion and sadistic domination that exploited young girls and boys as objects for the pleasure of paying customers is a painful story of forces that vandalized the very core of my soul...

[Allegro]

Also in Dallas:

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/ ... ked-child/
The prayer of a sex trafficked child

Thursday, November 8, 2012 - A Heart Without Compromise; Advocating for Children by Jerome Elam

... A shadow passed over my body as it clung to a whisper of its former vital force. I felt the cold touch of the ground as my body struggled to hold on to the warmth that sought an exodus in response to the sleeping pills and vodka I had just ingested. It was all growing dark now and the wind drifted across my face as its arms reached out to carry me away from the pain that had defined my life for so long. A peace that I had never felt before began to settle into my body and I prayed for the others who had suffered beside me to escape the darkness that had held us all prisoners for so long.

For the previous seven years I had been the “property” of a pedophile ring that had trafficked me sexually since the age of five. My attempts to find an escape from their enslavement had only met with severe physical retaliation and death threats.

The child sex trafficking ring disguised itself as an organization for boys and girls called the “Kids in the saddle” that touted exposing children to horses as a therapy for “behavior problems.” How I had become trapped in this web of dark perversion and sadistic domination that exploited young girls and boys as objects for the pleasure of paying customers is a painful story of forces that vandalized the very core of my soul...

Arrests made in underage prostitution sting
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA dot com)
25JUN12

Hundreds of FBI special agents partnered with thousands of local police officers, deputy sheriffs, state troopers, and other law enforcement personnel throughout the United States this past week, arresting those responsible for exploiting underage children through prostitution. The sixth iteration of Operation Cross Country, a three-day law enforcement action, led to the recovery of 79 children. Additionally, 104 pimps were arrested by local and state law enforcement on a variety of prostitution related charges.

Nearly 30 of those arrests were made in the Shreveport and Bossier City areas. The FBI worked with local law enforcement who had been monitoring these rings for months through different internet sites. According to the task force, the suspects would list times and locations of the alleged meetings. Of these arrests, 95 percent were people from out of town.

The accessibility to Interstate-20 from Dallas to Atlanta has been the main draw for prostitution in the Shreveport-Bossier area. The task force also said the casinos and hotels add to the attraction.

“Many times the children that are taken in, in these types of criminal activities, are children that are disaffected,” said Kevin L. Perkins, acting executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch. “They are from broken homes. They may be on the streets themselves. They are looking for a meal and shelter and are looking for someone to take care of them. That’s really the first approach that’s made.”

Operation Cross Country is part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative that was created in 2003 by the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, in partnership with the Department of Justice and National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), to address the growing problem of domestic child sex trafficking in the United States.

“Once again, thanks to decade-long FBI leadership, it is clear that child prostitution and sex trafficking do not just occur somewhere else on the other side of the world. These insidious crimes are occurring in American cities and the victims are American kids,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

More.

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The child sex trafficking ring disguised itself as an organization for boys and girls called the “Kids in the saddle” that touted exposing children to horses as a therapy for “behavior problems.” How I had become trapped in this web of dark perversion and sadistic domination that exploited young girls and boys as objects for the pleasure of paying customers is a painful story of forces that vandalized the very core of my soul...

Powerful article. Anyone in that area have a guess at the real name of the organization? It would be useful to put the pieces together.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/15/brother-of-mia-farrow-charged-with-child-sex-abuse/#.UKVa1TxxElE.facebook

Brother of Mia Farrow charged with child sex abuse

By David Ferguson
Thursday, November 15, 2012 14:16 EST

John Charles Villiers-Farrow, brother of actress Mia Farrow, was arrested and charged with child sex abuse in Maryland on Thursday. According to Washington, DC’s NBC Channel 4, the 66-year-old Villiers-Farrow is implicated in a series of incidents dating back to 2000.

The “sometime screenwriter and boat salesman” has been accused by two men who came forward in August of this year alleging that Villiers-Farrow, who they described as “a neighbor,” had sexually abused each of them from the ages of 9 to 16, during the years 2000 to 2008.

Villiers-Farrow spoke out in 1992 during his sister’s divorce from director and producer Woody Allen, who was leaving his wife for their 21-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi.

At the time, he accused Allen of serial child molestation, telling People magazine that Allen “is going to be indicted, and he’s going to be ruined. I think when all of it comes out, he’s going to go to jail.”

NBC Washington reported, “Villiers-Farrow has been charged with second- and third-degree sex offenses, two counts of perverted practice, two counts of second-degree child abuse, several counts of sex abuse of a minor, and two counts of second-degree assault. He is being held on an $800,000 bond.”

Any other victims who were abused by Villers-Farrow were urged to contact Detective Josh Williams of the Anne Arundel County Police at 410-222-3484.

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1tCvb)

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http://www.concordmonitor.com/home/2790496-95/biron-charges-lawyer-manchester

Manchester lawyer facing federal child pornography charges arrested by FBI at courthouse

By TRICIA L. NADOLNY Monitor staff
Saturday, November 17, 2012
(Published in print: Saturday, November 17, 2012)

A Manchester lawyer took a teenage girl to Canada, had her engage in sexual activity and convinced her to let it be filmed, according to federal indictments.

FBI agents swiftly arrested Lisa Biron yesterday morning as she awaited a hearing on child pornography charges at Manchester’s district court. About 9 a.m. FBI agents entered the courtroom, told Biron to leave her belongings and took her into an adjoining conference room where she remained for several minutes before coming out in handcuffs.

Outside, Biron ducked her head below the backseat window of a white vehicle as it was driven away from the courthouse.

A few hours later in U.S. District Court in Concord, Biron, who is associated with a national coalition of Christian lawyers, was formally told of the federal charges against her: transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and five counts of sexual exploitation of children.

Judge Landya McCafferty decided to detain Biron yesterday, largely, she said, because she is believed to have broken most of the bail conditions imposed on the district-level pornography charges.

A judge there ordered Biron last month to use her computer only for work, not possess weapons and have no contact with the teenage girl in the five videos and two pictures found on her computer.

The no-contact order was the only condition Biron appears to have honored, prosecutor Helen Fitzgibbon told McCafferty.

Fitzgibbon said since her release, Biron posted an advertisement on Craigslist, the same listing service where she met the individual who ultimately tipped off the Manchester police about the pornography on her computer.

And when Biron was arrested yesterday, she told FBI agents who were preparing to search her home that they would find a loaded pistol under her mattress. Agents didn’t find that gun, but they did find 200 rounds of ammunition in Biron’s home, Fitzgibbon said yesterday.

That was enough evidence for the judge, who said that while she didn’t consider Biron a flight risk, she was concerned her release would be dangerous for the community.

McCafferty told Biron she was “not at all comfortable” she would abide by new bail conditions if released.

“There is evidence that you at least thought you had a loaded gun under your mattress,” McCafferty said.

She told Biron the evidence was “extremely troubling,” considering her career as a lawyer.

In making her case that Biron should be held, Fitzgibbon also made the following allegations:

∎ Two witnesses have testified to seeing Biron in possession of ecstasy, marijuana and cocaine.

∎ Biron sent a threatening text message to the person who turned her in to the police, advising him he would have to watch his back “FOR EVER.”

∎ Biron sent a text to a friend saying she might flee to Cuba because she had “nothing left.”

∎ Biron has asked people to lie to law enforcement about her case.

∎ Other juveniles have been subjected to Biron’s sexual activity and drug use.

Biron’s appointed lawyer, Jim Moir, asked the judge to consider her lack of criminal history when weighing her release. He said Biron has lived in New Hampshire for more than 40 years. And he said she has willfully appeared at all of her court appearances on the district-level pornography charges.

“She’s had plenty of time to flee already,” Moir said. “She has not.”

He also noted that Biron was ordered by a judge to relinquish her passport last month.

The district court charges, seven counts of possessing child pornography, were filed against Biron on Oct. 9.

The police began investigating Biron about a week before that when a man came into the Manchester Police Department and reported that he had seen pornography on her computer, according to Captain Nick Willard. Officers received a search warrant and executed it at Biron’s 42 Pratt Court home in Manchester on Oct. 9. A forensic search was completed on her computer, and she was arrested after investigators found the pornographic materials, according to Willard.

Biron was scheduled for a probable cause hearing yesterday where a judge would have weighed whether there was enough evidence for the case to be forwarded to Hillsborough County Superior Court.

Biron’s appointed lawyer on those charges had filed to waive the hearing just before the FBI agents took her into custody.

The federal charges against Biron are scheduled for trial in January. If convicted, she faces 10 years to life in prison on the transportation charge and 15 years to life in prison on each of the exploitation of children charges.

Records show Biron became a lawyer in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts in 2008.

Biron was briefly associated with the Donais Law Offices in Manchester before her arrest; she is now on an indefinite suspension.

Biron is associated with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a group of lawyers who, according to their website, are committed to keeping “the door open for the spread of the Gospel” by advocating for “religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family.” In Concord, she worked with the ADF in defending a Pentecostal Church on Mountain Road in its tax fight against the city.

She recently served on the board of directors at Mount Zion Christian Schools in Manchester, according to the school’s headmaster.

On Biron’s Facebook page, which was taken down in recent weeks, she had listed the Bible as her favorite book.

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On Biron’s Facebook page, which was taken down in recent weeks, she had listed the Bible as her favorite book.

To be fair, there's quite a bit of porn going on in the Bible.

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Universal Studios employs sex offenders, says Redditor who used to work there:

Will this get buried? I hope so, but I need to say it.

Universal studios employs over 100 sex offenders. In my 4 years there there were over 200 child sex acts that I heard about from security friends of mine. I personally caught 4 sex offenders. I told everyone up the ladder. They still work there. That's not even counting the offenders that have annual passes and come in every day to troll for kids.

If you have children and go to universal, I beg you. Be that lame parent. Keep them with you at all times. Because the chances of them being abused are abnormally high. Watching a girl run out of the magic shop with her dress around her chest bleeding will always be with me.

Til;Dr: sex offenders are all over universal studios.

EDIT: so I'm going to bed. Please don't blow this up overnight. Even though I don't work there anymore I'd prefer to not to wake up to phone calls from people. I really should have used a throwaway for this one... eh, hindsight.

Link: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13j4d4/i_was_talking_to_a_friend_who_works_at_target_who/c74lus6

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If you strip away the "worse than the death penalty" rhetoric, basically what the NCAA did was fine Penn State $60 million and condemn them to competing on the same level as Indiana or Purdue instead of Ohio State and Michigan.

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The irate fans are delusional as this represents a best case scenario for PSU football.

Well, I was wrong. Penn State had a much better season than either Indiana or Purdue:

Penn State >> 8-4 overall (6-2 in the Big Ten)
Indiana >> 4-8 overall (2-6 in the Big Ten)
Purdue >> 6-6 overall (3-5 in the Big Ten)

And they had the exact same record as Michigan.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/con ... conference

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Photos of Accuser on Stand Disrupt Sexual Abuse Trial
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: November 29, 2012

The trial of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor accused of repeatedly molesting a girl was disrupted on Thursday afternoon when four spectators in a Brooklyn courtroom were accused of taking pictures with their cellphones of the accuser on the witness stand.

The four men, Joseph Fried, Yona Weisman, Abraham Zupnick and Lemon Juice, were arrested and charged with criminal contempt in the second degree, a misdemeanor that carries a sentence of up to one year in jail.

The accuser, who is now 17, has testified that she and her family had faced a pattern of intimidation from the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since she alleged last year that Nechemya Weberman, the unlicensed therapist her parents had sent her to for counseling, repeatedly forced her to have oral sex during their sessions together from the time she was 12 until she turned 15.

In June, prosecutors charged four Williamsburg men with attempting to silence her by offering her a $500,000 bribe through her boyfriend to drop her participation in the case. Intimidation of sexual abuse victims in the ultra-Orthodox community is common, prosecutors say, because going to secular authorities with charges against another Jew is considered treasonous. But arrests for intimidation are rare.

Mr. Weberman’s accuser had already been provided with increased security after onlookers said they spotted Mr. Weberman staring at her threateningly through the window of a conference room as she rested during a break in the court session on Wednesday, said Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office. The defense denies that Mr. Weberman did this.

Then at about 2 p.m. Thursday, court officers spotted a man taking a picture of the teenager as she testified, Mr. Schmetterer said. The judge, Justice John G. Ingram, ordered the jury cleared from the 20th-floor courtroom in State Supreme Court, and the cellphones of all onlookers in the courtroom were confiscated.

The phones of the four men arrested had photos of the teenager that had been taken in the courtroom, and one photo appeared to have already been posted to Twitter, Mr. Schmetterer said. David Bookstaver, a spokesman for the court, said that Judge Ingram also admonished the men before allowing the trial to continue.

While the district attorney’s office did not comment on motive, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, an advocate for abuse victims who was in the courtroom, said that the men arrested were Satmar Hasidic supporters of Mr. Weberman. “This is intimidation,” he said. “The government should not let this slide away, because this is not an accident. It is done deliberately in an effort to keep the law system from functioning.”

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and Lemon Juice

Wait, an Hasidic Jew named Lemon Juice?

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my only reason for existence is to make sure your head stays full of fuck .....I think it's like the Jewish version of Teflon Don and sleeping with the gefiltes