Tag: Crime
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Catholic cleric who railed against ‘psychosexually dysfunctional’ priests faces child pornography charges
FOLLOWING his arrest in October, 2021, for possessing child porn, Father James W. Jackson, a Rhode Island priest, was detained for the second time last year in Kansas for allegedly violating the conditions of his release. His trial is about to commence shortly. And here’s the kicker: Just weeks before his first arrest, Jackson wrote…
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Money-laundering probe launched against a pastor who ‘disrespected’ Lord Buddha
Bling’s the thing in “The Miracle Dome” in Sri Lanka, and authorities now want to know where self-styled prophet Jerome Fernando, above right, got the dosh to pay for it all. Fernando hurriedly left the Buddhist country on May 16, ahead of an overseas travel ban placed on him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)…
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US church that lost almost $800,000 to a scammer started a fundraiser to recoup its losses. Response is dismal.
IN a heartfelt plea for $793,848, pastor Johnny Blevins, above, of North Carolina’s Elkin Valley Baptist Church, relates in a GoFundMe video how the church had “prayerfully saved toward a new worship center for over ten years”, then lost more than half of its savings. But the appeal, launched after the church fell victim to…
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After conducting a funeral, a predatory Michigan Catholic priest abused a boy aged five
WHEN paedophile Vincent DeLorenzo, above, comes up for sentencing on June 13, the 84-year-old is expected to sent to prison for a year. DeLorenzo pleaded guilty this week to a charge of sexual assault on the youngster following a family funeral in 1987. The priest, who served for many years in the Roman Catholic Diocese…
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Fourth abuse charge brought against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92
IN 2021 McCarrick, defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, became the first cardinal in the US to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor. The frail nonagenarian first appeared in a Massachusetts court where he faced three counts of indecent assault and…
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Alabama Methodist church went belly up after its secretary stole all of its cash
OF the $89,440.32 stolen by Carmen Ramer Davis, 59, from the Brooklyn Congregational Methodist Church in Coffee County, a portion was spent in casinos in Mississippi and Alabama. Davis, according this report, was sentenced on Good Friday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay back the cash. Last year she pleaded guilty to…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 