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ST. GEORGE — Gabriel Carlin, a St. George pastor who is charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old female student at a Christian school where he worked, has pleaded guilty to two felonies.
Carlin, 34, is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 3 before 5th District Judge Eric Ludlow.

Carlin pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted sex abuse of a child, both third-degree felonies, as part of a plea bargain. Originally, he was charged with four counts of first-degree felony aggravated sex abuse of a child.

Law enforcement officials said he taught at the East Harbor Christian Academy, where the girl attended school. She told her parents and police that Carlin molested her in 2006 and he subsequently was charged in 5th District Court.

The judge ordered that a pre-sentence report be prepared and that Carlin undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation.

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AIKEN, SC (WIS) - Aiken County authorities on Thursday arrested a North Augusta pastor concerning a series of sexual assaults dating back to 1990 involving a teenage girl.

Authorities say 69-year-old Lawrence Smith, of North Augusta, South Carolina, is charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor - second degree (three counts), lewd act upon a child (three counts) and assault and battery high and aggravated nature (three counts).

Aiken County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Smith at his home.

They say between December, 1990, and December, 1995, the subject sexually assaulted the victim on numerous occasions. The assaults took place at the subject’s home and another home on Bradleyville Road.

“We know for a fact there are more victims,” said Sheriff Michael Hunt in a written news release. “Some either have moved out of the area or do not want to cooperate, but we encourage anyone who has been a victim to come forward.”

In January 2005, fire destroyed Free Indeed Holiness Church, where Smith served as pastor. The cause of the fire never was determined.

Smith was being held at the Aiken County Detention Center.

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BOLTON — State Police said the pastor of an Albany County church who also works as a prison chaplain at Washington Correctional Facility was one of two men arrested Saturday on charges they were having sexual contact at a Northway rest area in Bolton on Saturday.

Joseph A. Loux Jr., 63, of Hannacroix, and Eugene F. Barnaby, 34, of Thurman were each charged with public lewdness, a misdemeanor, after trooper Edward Stannard witnessed them having sexual contact with one another at a rest area located off the southbound lanes between exits 23 and 24.

Loux told police he was pastor of Congregational Christian Church of Ravena and a chaplain in the prison system.

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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY

Banned for life: that is the punishment for a former associate pastor accused of sexual battery at a local nude beach.

Here are the Facts First:

In July 2007, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department set up an undercover sting at Pirate’s Cove in Avila Beach.
There had been complaints about lewd behavior in the bushes above the beach.
Three men were caught in the sting, including 53-year-old Geronimo Cuevas, an associate pastor at Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church in Nipomo.
Cuevas received three years probation for committing what sheriff’s deputies say was sexual misconduct.

He was arrested and charged for suspicion of sexual battery and soliciting a lewd act in a public place. Sheriff’s deputies say Cuevas was standing in the bushes off the trail that leads down to the beach, masturbating.

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ALBANY — A priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, who served at a Troy parish after he was ordained in 1985, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to four years in prison for possession of child pornography.

Raymond Ethier, 51, of Hudson, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy. He also was ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release.

The judge also ordered that Ethier have no unsupervised contact with minors, that he participate in a sex offender program and register with the New York State Sex Offender Registry.

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A CHURCH youth leader who brutally raped a terrified 16-year-old choir girl and indecently assaulted at least five others - one just eight-years-old - has been caged for 11 years.

Yet although his behaviour was made aware to the church, they forgave’ him and told him to get counselling after an initial complaint, and then expelled him from the church after a second complaint, never reporting the matter to police, Wood Green Crown Court was told.

Serial sex offender Howard Zin Green, 47, befriended the “God-fearing” choir girls and their families when he met them at Seventh-day Adventist churches across London, including in Enfield and Edmonton.

Green gained the girls’ trust and gradually groomed’ them, before sexually assaulting them during a 14-year long pattern of abuse’ between 1980 and 1994.

It was only 12 years later, in 2006, that one of his victims went to police following counselling and an investigation uncovered a pattern of abuse.

Green, of Queens Avenue, Greenford, west London, began his campaign when he raped a 16-year-old choir girl he met at a church in Croydon, south London.

The following day he made her go to hospital and get the morning after pill.

He then sexually assaulted a girl under ten and her 16-year-old sister whom he met at a church in Peckham, south London, in 1981, the court heard.

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Philadelphia - Episcopal Bishop Charles Bennison faced his first day of ecclesiastical trial yesterday over whether he violated church rules by failing to disclose a sexual relationship between his brother and an underage parishioner.

The bishop’s younger brother John allegedly had illicit sex with a girl beginning in 1971 when she was a 14-year-old member of St. Mark’s Church in Upland, Calif., and he was a 24-year-old seminary student. The sexual relationship lasted until 1974, the year she departed for college.

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NEOSHO, Mo. | A woman who says she was raped and sodomized by the pastor of a small southwest Missouri when she was 16 testified Monday that he told her the sex acts were to please God.

After three women testified at his preliminary trial, Randall “Danny” Russell, 49, was bound over for trial on several charges that include second-degree statutory rape, first-degree statutory sodomy, second-degree statutory sodomy, felony child abuse and first-degree molestation.

Russell was the minister of Acts II Church, which is part of a larger compound that also includes Russell’s home and a construction business he operates.

The first alleged victim, now 20, testified that Russell started abusing her when she was 16. She said the abuse started in August 2003 while in a car, and that later Russell took pictures of her naked after a church service.

Investigators say they found those photos while executing a search warrant at the church in late April.

The woman testified that the two often had oral sex on Sundays, sometimes at Russell’s home and sometimes in the church offices.

“He said I came to the church (because) I wanted to please God, and he said that pleasing my pastor was pleasing God,” she testified.

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After two years of delays and a victory before the Arizona Supreme Court, a suspended Roman Catholic priest finally appears close to having his day in court..

A date for the trial of Monsignor Dale Fushek on misdemeanor sex charges may be set June 12, when he returns to San Tan Justice Court for the first time since his case was interrupted by two years of pre-trial appeals.

A cloud of suspicion has been hanging over Fushek, 55, since December 2004, when he named in a civil suit that accused him of watching and performing a sex act on himself while another priest sodomized a 14-year-old boy in 1985.

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Pineville, Mo. -
A McDonald County pastor facing eight felony charges of child sexual abuse will be back in court Friday morning.

Raymond Lambert, 52, will be in court at 9 a.m. Friday for a pre-trial conference, to be held in the McDonald County Circuit Courtroom in Pineville. Judge Timothy Perigo will preside. Trial is set to begin June 30 in McDonald County.

Lambert is charged with four counts of second-degree child molestation and two counts of statutory sodomy. Charges of statutory sodomy and sexual abuse were dropped April.

The child molestation charges are Class D felonies and carry a prison term of up to four years, if a conviction is reached. Meanwhile, the statutory sodomy charges are Class C felonies and carry a penalty of up to seven years in prison, if a conviction is reached.

The abuse incidents allegedly took place between February 1995 and April 2004.
Lambert has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is the pastor of Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church, located near Powell, and was indicted earlier this year by a McDonald County grand jury.

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