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Jephthah Burns His Daughter

"At that time the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he went throughout the land of Gilead and Manasseh, including Mizpah in Gilead, and led an army against the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, "If you give me victory over the Ammonites, I will give to the LORD the first thing coming out of my house to greet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering."

"So Jephthah led his army against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory. He thoroughly defeated the Ammonites from Aroer to an area near Minnith – twenty towns – and as far away as Abel-keramim. Thus Israel subdued the Ammonites. When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter – his only child – ran out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish. "My daughter!" he cried out. "My heart is breaking! What a tragedy that you came out to greet me. For I have made a vow to the LORD and cannot take it back." And she said, "Father, you have made a promise to the LORD. You must do to me what you have promised, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites. But first let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin." "You may go," Jephthah said. And he let her go away for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never have children. When she returned home, her father kept his vow, and she died a virgin. So it has become a custom in Israel for young Israelite women to go away for four days each year to lament the fate of Jephthah's daughter." (Judges 11:29-40 NLT)

God Commands Burning Humans


[The Lord speaking] "The one who has stolen what was set apart for destruction will himself be burned with fire, along with everything he has, for he has broken the covenant of the LORD and has done a horrible thing in Israel." (Joshua 7:15 NLT)

Josiah and Human Sacrifice


At the LORD's command, a man of God from Judah went to Bethel, and he arrived there just as Jeroboam was approaching the altar to offer a sacrifice. Then at the LORD's command, he shouted, "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says: A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you." (1 Kings 13:1-2 NLT)

He [Josiah] executed the priests of the pagan shrines on their own altars, and he burned human bones on the altars to desecrate them. Finally, he returned to Jerusalem. King Josiah then issued this order to all the people: "You must celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the Book of the Covenant." There had not been a Passover celebration like that since the time when the judges ruled in Israel, throughout all the years of the kings of Israel and Judah. This Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem during the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign. Josiah also exterminated the mediums and psychics, the household gods, and every other kind of idol worship, both in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Judah. He did this in obedience to all the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD's Temple. Never before had there been a king like Josiah, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and soul and strength, obeying all the laws of Moses. And there has never been a king like him since. (2 Kings 23:20-25 NLT)

Human Sacrifice

Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself. In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble; (Wisdom 3:5-7 NAB The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible.)

Child Sacrifice

And this became a hidden trap for mankind, because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared. Afterward it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but they live in great strife due to ignorance, and they call such great evils peace. For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs… (Wisdom 14:21-23 RSV) The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon is mostly in Catholic versions of the Bible. This passage condemns human sacrifice but acknowledges that it did happen by early God worshipers.

Humans are Fuel for Fire

As for you, son of man, prophesy: Thus says the Lord GOD against the Ammonites and their insults: A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughter, burnished to consume and to flash lightning, because you planned with false visions and lying divinations to lay it on the necks of depraved and wicked men whose day has come when their crimes are at an end. Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you. I will pour out my indignation upon you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to ravaging men, artisans of destruction. You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken. (Ezekiel 21:33-37 NAB)

Burn Nonbelievers

"Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)

So the next time some Christian tells you about the "love of God", show them this page and ask them "Why does God want me to burn animals and humans?"

Pastor pleads guilty to sexual assault of teen

FORT WORTH -- The former pastor of the Southwood Baptist Church was sentenced to 10 years deferred adjudication probation this afternoon after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a church member.

James "Jay" Virtue Robinson IV's guilty plea means the 31-year man must register as a sex offender for life.

Robinson was arrested June 18 on accusations that he had had a relationship with a teen church member that included sexual contact when the girl was 16. Some of the liaisons, police have said, occurred inside the church at 2633 Altamesa Blvd.

Robinson, who has been free on bond since his arrest, had vehemently denied the allegations, garnering the support of the church council and many church members who believed that he was innocent.

But other members, including one council member, were kicked out of the church or voluntarily left because of their belief that Robinson should have been removed as pastor.

Robinson resigned from Southwood last month on the advice of attorneys.

Deferred adjudication means that if Robinson completes his probation, the case will be dismissed and there will be no conviction on his record, although the arrest will remain.

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More charges filed against Metro East youth pastor

BELLEVILLE, Ill. --
A former O'Fallon church youth minister already facing charges of assaulting an 8-year-old girl has been charged again with sexually assaulting a second youth.

Thirty-six-year-old Terrence Jenkins of East St. Louis was charged Thursday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and criminal sexual assault. According to the charges, the girl was 14 when assaulted on August 11, 2006.

According to court documents, Jenkins is accused of molesting both girls while he served as a youth minister with Faith United Baptist Church in O'Fallon. Jenkins is no longer with the church.

Jenkins was free on bond awaiting trial on charges of criminal predatory sexual assault of the 8-year-old when he was arrested by investigators for the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department on a warrant for the newest charges.

Jenkins is being held in the St. Clair County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bond.

Pastor Ssenyonga detained over child molesting

Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga, the senior pastor of Christian Life Centre was arrested last Saturday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl while on a flight in the United States of America (USA).

The Contra Costa Times newspaper in the US reported that Sheriff’s deputies (American policemen) apprehended Past Ssenyonga at Oakland International Airport accused of molesting the girl on a flight that originated in Denver to Oakland.

According to the newspaper report of August 20, 2008, Pastor Ssenyonga, 41, was arrested on suspicion of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child younger than 14 years.

Mr Senyonga, the proprietor of Top Radio and Television could also face federal charges and is under investigation by the FBI. Mr Ssenyonga was described by the publication as “a minister of a Ugandan mega-church and known internationally as a poverty-relief advocate.”

The alleged victim, who was traveling alone, told flight attendants that a man seated next to her had fondled her, and she asked to be moved, a US security officer ,Mr J. Nelson said. The man was later identified as Mr Senyonga.

Sheriff’s youth and family services bureau investigators interviewed Mr Senyonga and his accuser when they got off the plane, Mr Nelson said. The girl’s account was deemed credible, Nelson said. The girl suffered no physical injuries.

Mr Senyonga was initially taken to Santa Rita jail in Dublin, but his current custody status wasn’t immediatly available on Wednesday, Mr Nelson said.

The Chairman of the National Association of Born Again Churches in Uganda (NABC), Mr. Alex Mitala said he was not aware of Mr Senyonga’s arrest. NABC is the umbrella body that oversees the operation of several born-again churches.

“First of all Ssenyonga is not under the organization I lead. But I know him as a person who married a young woman when he was a young man and they are happily married,” Mr Mitala said.

Pastor Moses Male of Arise for Christ, an organisation that is fighting immorality in born-again churches described the incident as a shame to the community.

“It’s not surprising because we have gays, rapists, conmen and extortionists who are masquerading as pastors in Uganda. What surprised me is that the incident happened on a 13-year-old and on a plane which is a public place, Mr. Male who already knew of Senyonga’s arrest by the time he was contacted by Saturday Monitor, said.

Judge sentences former pastor to eight years in prison

Eight years in prison was the sentence handed down by a Delaware County judge Monday, Aug. 18, for Brian L. Williams.

He's the former Sunbury area pastor accused of raping a 15-year-old girl he was counseling.

Common Pleas Judge W. Duncan Whitney sentenced Williams to four years for each count of sexual battery, to which he pled guilty June 23, according to the Delaware County Prosecutors Office.

Williams' admission came after he pleaded not guilty March 25 to two counts of rape and two counts of sexual battery related to an alleged incident at the Sunbury Grace Brethren Church in March.

Williams, 45, pled guilty to a bill of information, thus avoiding indictment on the new charges by a grand jury, according to a June press release from county Prosecutor Dave Yost.

"This sends a message to those in a position of trust: do not abuse your trust," Yost said in a written release.

The initial rape charges were dropped under the negotiated plea, said Traci Beck, projects coordinator for the Delaware County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

Williams is now classified as a sex offender. Under Ohio law, a defendant is classified in tiers based on the severity of the crime. Because Williams pleaded guilty to sexual battery charges, he is classified as a Tier III sex offender.

Such an offender must register, every 90 days for life, with the sheriff of the county in which the offender lives, works and attends school and also whenever the registered sex offender changes residence.

Neighbors and other community entities, such as schools and day-care centers, are notified by the sheriff's office whenever a registered Tier III sex offender notifies the sheriff of the offender's intention to reside within certain distances of such entities.

Williams was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl between 2:35 and 3:15 p.m. March 6 at the church, 409 Perfect Drive, according to village police reports.

The victim told police she was delivered to the church March 6 by a family member for an appointment with Williams to discuss the girl's grades, police said.

During this meeting Williams assaulted her, according to reports.

Williams, of Berlin Station Road, was arrested the following day after the victim and her family contacted police the morning of March 7.

Yost said the victim knew Williams through the church, although the family were not members.

Williams was set to stand trial for the original charges July 10, for which he could spend up to 10 years in prison in addition to a $20,000 fine. Court documents show the prosecutors office was prepared to present physical evidence as well as witness statements from, among others, the Grady Memorial Hospital Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner.

Ross Long, Williams' attorney, could not be reached for comment.

Williams and his family helped start the church last year, with support from his previous congregation at Delaware Grace Brethren Church.

Sunbury Grace now is being guided by pastor Jerry Funston, who started there in August 2007, according to the church's Web site.

Funston said he would have no comment on the situation.

Williams also volunteered with an Olentangy High School choir group called Keynotes.

Pastor charged with murder and incest

AN AMERICAN preacher was arrested for murder, sodomy and incest whilst holding a revival at the Inspiration Tabernacle Church, in Jackson, Alabama.

Police stormed the small revival church where father of eight Rev Anthony Hopkins was preaching on July 28, armed with guns, and arrested him in front of the 50-strong congregation.

They had received a tip off from Rev Hopkins’ 19-year-old daughter, who told police at a child Advocacy Centre what had been happening at her home.

The teen had allegedly been a victim of her father's sexual advances. She informed police that he had killed her mother – his wife.

Police raided Rev Hopkins’ home and found a body in the freezer. Forensic tests have yet to be undertaken to ascertain how and when his wife died.

Neighbours described Rev Hopkins as a man who liked to keep himself to himself. However, he was charismatic and had a prophetic and preaching ministry.

It was due to recommendations from members of the Inspiration Tabernacle Church, that its pastor, Beverly Johnson, invited Rev Hopkins to host a week-long revival. It lasted just one day due to his arrest.

Religious nuts pray to raise child from death

BROOKLYN — After denying Javon Thompson food and water for two days because he wouldn’t say “Amen” after meals, the 1-year-old’s caretakers waited for a divine sign that their message had been heard: a resurrection.

For more than a week, police say in charging documents describing the scene, the child’s lifeless body lay in the back room of an apartment. Queen Antoinette, the 40-year-old leader of a group that called itself 1 Mind Ministries, brought in her followers and told them to pray. God, she said, would raise Javon from the dead.

Instead, Javon’s body began to decompose. After cult members abandoned hope of Javon’s resurrection, they switched to Plan B, police say.

Antoinette burned Javon’s clothing and mattress and put his body in a green suitcase. She stuffed the suitcase with mothballs and fabric softener sheets, and opened it occasionally to spray disinfectant inside.

In early 2007, cult members stored the suitcase behind a home in Philadelphia and relocated to Brooklyn, according to police.

Meanwhile, the boy’s grandmother began a desperate search for him, as well as her own daughter, 21-year-old Ria Ramkissoon, who was the boy’s mother and had joined the cult.

Not knowing her grandson was dead, Seeta Khadan-Newton traveled in February 2008 to the Brooklyn apartment where the cult was staying, and spoke to her daughter through an intercom.

Ramkissoon called her by her first name, instead of Mom, Khadan-Newton said, and there were long pauses after Khadan-Newton asked questions about Javon’s whereabouts.

“She said, ‘My son is fine,’” Khadan-Newton said. “They [were] coaching her and telling her what to say.”

In part because of Khadan-Newton’s contact with a social worker in New York, authorities there tracked down Antoinette and two other cult members wanted in a separate case: Trevia Williams, 21, and Marcus A. Cobbs, 21.

They were later charged in Javon’s death. Ramkissoon returned to Baltimore and was living in a homeless shelter when she was arrested. A fifth person charged in the case, Steven Bynum, 42, is being sought in New York.

Ramkissoon called her mother last Sunday from the city jail. At first, Khadan-Newton didn’t realize that she was speaking to her daughter — a conversation that reinforced her belief that Ramkissoon remains under the group’s control.

“She sounded empty, like an empty shell. There was no emotion,” Khadan-Newton said. “I was shocked. I didn’t even recognize her voice. ... It’s not the same person.”

Ramkissoon, and four other people authorities say are members of the group face first-degree murder charges in Thompson’s death. But Ramkissoon’s mother and attorney say that she was brainwashed by a cult and acted only at the group leader’s will.

“The members of this cult, who were more than twice her age, were calling the shots,” Ramkissoon’s attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said Tuesday after a court hearing. “She bought the program hook, line and sinker.”

Court documents describe a group that operated secretly, dressed all in white and eschewed medical care. Antoinette, also known as Toni Sloan or Toni Ellsberry, called her followers “princes” and “princesses.” And she and her followers were possessive of the children under their care.

Children have been killed in similar groups for failing to follow cult teachings, and that appears to have been the case with Javon, who was viewed as a “demon,” according to police statements supporting the murder charges.

Ramkissoon’s association with the group began shortly after Javon was born in September 2005, according to Khadan-Newton. She gave birth at 18, and was struggling to care for her baby while working and taking college classes, she said.

Khadan-Newton, who moved with her daughter from their native Trinidad when the girl was 8, described Ramkissoon as sweet-natured and trusting. Khadan-Newton is Hindu, but her daughter became a Christian. Ramkissoon’s church betrayed her trust, her mother said, when its pastor pleaded guilty to molesting boys in the congregation.

Ramkissoon was friends with Tiffany Smith, then a member of the group, and 1 Mind Ministries began recruiting her, Khadan-Newton said. After spending time with cult members, Ramkissoon started worrying she was going to hell.

“My daughter was very religious. She was into the Bible — obsessed with it,” Khadan-Newton said. “They (were) going to show her the right way. She got sucked into it.”

Ramkissoon left home with Javon in April 2006, and Khadan-Newton, who keeps a collage of photos of the child in her apartment, has not seen them since. But Khadan-Newton hasn’t wavered in her belief that her daughter was not responsible for her grandson’s death. “She was brainwashed,” she said.

Fearful for her grandson, Khadan-Newton began a drawn-out, heartbreaking effort to rescue him and his mother. She pleaded with police, social workers, judges and politicians to intervene, but she said she always got the same response: Since the child was with his mother, who left home willingly, nothing could be done. She sued for custody, but her daughter could not be found to be served with papers.

“I fear for [my grandson’s] and my daughter’s safety, you see. They are in a cult. I haven’t seen or heard from my daughter since April,” Khadan-Newton wrote in a letter to Circuit Judge Audrey J.S. Carrion about a month before the child died.

State Secretary of Human Resources Brenda Donald said her agency has records of a couple of calls about Javon, including one in October 2007 from a person who said he was a relative of the boy and one several months later from a healthcare worker who knew a cult member.

Investigators went to an address they were given by the first caller but found it was vacant, Donald said. She said they weren’t able to follow up because the caller would not leave his name or contact information. There was no documentation of calls from Khadan-Newton, Donald said.

“It’s a tragic, tragic situation and we responded with the information that we had in a responsive way and unfortunately it didn’t change the outcome,” she said.

Ex-youth pastor faces new charges of sex battery

MANSFIELD — Another person has come forward in the John Picard sexual battery case.

Picard, 40, of Springboro, was arrested last month and charged with 10 counts of sexual battery. He is accused of having sexual relations with a teenage parishioner starting in 1992, when she was 13, and continuing until she reached adulthood. Picard was a youth pastor at Grace Brethren Church on Marion Avenue at the time.

Picard was charged with six more counts of sexual battery in indictments released Monday. If convicted on all 16 counts, he could receive up to 80 years in prison.

“The charges stem from as early as fall of 1991 and carry through to September of 1997,” Richland County Assistant Prosecutor Gary Bishop said.

Bishop alleged the victims were members of or attended Grace Brethren Church.

“Picard was acting in his position of cleric or minister,” he said.

The assistant prosecutor explained the charges.

“Sexual battery takes a number of different forms,” Bishop said. “It could involve a person who’s a teacher with a student where it’s based on the relationship of the parties.”

Picard was being held in the county jail on $250,000 bond.

Ex-Palestine youth pastor arrested on sex charges

MABANK — First Baptist Church of Mabank youth minister Joshua Neal Ponder, 32, was arrested Aug. 13, for sexual assault of a teenager.

Mabank Police Chief Kyle McAfee said Ponder confessed to charges related to a 16-year-old male victim.

The assault allegedly occurred April 8 but was not reported until Aug. 8, according to reports.

The teenager is not a member of the church.

The Rev. Brent Tucker of First Baptist Church of Mabank, Chairman of the Deacons Randy Teague and Minister of Music Chris Sweet conducted a press conference at the church Thursday. The three released a statement on behalf of the church.

“We are deeply saddened by the circumstances that involve Josh Ponder prior to and during his employment at FBC Mabank,” the statement read. “We lift up in prayer his family and those who have been affected. The FBC Mabank does not condone these alleged actions. ...

“We have accepted the resignation of Ponder effective Aug. 14. We are in prayer for our youth and their parents at this time.”

Prior to his stint in Mabank, Ponder served as youth minister at First Baptist Church of Palestine from June 2001 to May 2007.

The Rev. Jay Abernathy, pastor of First Baptist Church of Palestine, was notified of Ponder’s arrest late last week and said the church would cooperate with police in the investigation, if asked.

“We are shocked and saddened by this incident, and are praying for everyone involved,” Abernathy said Monday afternoon. “We have made counselors available to our youth and families who may be hurting and will be available to anyone in our church and community who wants to talk.

“We are working to respond to everyone hurt by this.”

Representing the Palestine church’s deacon ministry board, Steve Jenkins mirrored Rev. Abernathy’s sentiments in a statement made by phone Monday.

“As a church, we are saddened by the news of (Josh’s) arrest,” Jenkins said. “We are thankful for the prompt response of the Mabank Police Department and will assist them in any way possible to see that justice is served.

“We respect the need for privacy and healing in the lives of those affected and pray that others will also.”

Ponder remains in the Kaufman County Law Enforcement Center charged with sexual assault of a child. Bail has been set at $200,000.

Mabank police are investigating possible instances of improper contact with other victims.

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Pastor rapes girl to death

The gory sight of nine-year-old Covenant Elijah in one of the rooms of a church in Iyana-Era area of Badagry Lagos, was not only mind blowing but ear-tingling. A teeming sympathetic crowd had quickly gathered with eyes bugling to behold the lifeless, violated body of an innocent girl whose mother, out of determination to find a spiritual solution to her daughter’s strange behaviour, only ended up in the claws of the devil himself, thereby sending her not just only to an untimely grave but with an untold torture and excruciating pains which could only be imagined than described.

Covenant’s unprepared journey to the land of the great beyond started few years after her mother Mrs Arit Bassey, reportedly noticed some strange behaviour in her. Efforts to proffer a lasting solution, saw her taking her daughter from one spiritual home to the other, until she landed at Miracle Deliverance Church International, where to her greatest shock, rather than living up to its name, the reverse was the case, as Covenant was found stone dead in the pastor’s room naked, with blood gushing out of her virgina.

Crime Guard investigation revealed that the unsuspecting mother was introduced to the Edo State-born Pastor Henry Ovotoka by one Essi, a member of the church, last month. The clergy man reportedly asked that the child be brought for deliverance with an assurance that all would be well at the end of the deliverance exercise. Mrs Bassey then left the church after the visit with a resolve to bring her daughter, little knowing that her predicament then was nothing compared to what awaited her.

On July 25th 2008, a Friday to be precise, the desperate mother, in the company of Essi, reportedly set out for the journey that unknown to her will spell doom for the family. Later in her confessional statement to the police, Mrs. Bassey said the pastor started praying in tongues as soon as they got to the church. According to her, “At a point, he stopped after two hours of praying and said my daughter was possessed. He asked if Covenant had eaten and I answered in the negative.

He said it was even better so that she could start a three-day fasting that would usher her to the deliverance proper. He claimed he was acting under the instruction of God. By then it was getting late and it looked as if it was going to rain.

“Since the Pastor insisted that the prayer and fasting period would be done in the church, I decided to rush home to pack some of my clothes and other perishable things I left outside. But when I got home, it was too late for me to go back. Therefore I called Essi, the Lady that introduced me to the Pastor to give my daughter wrapper with which to cover herself, with a promise to check on her the next day.”

Crime Guard learnt that she was unable to make it the next day being July 26th. Then on the third day, with great expectation that all was going to be over, she made for the church to take her daughter but to her greatest shock, she did not see both the Pastor and her daughter.

Being a Sunday, some of the worshipers had started assembling on the open plot of land used as prayer ground. The perplexed mother narrated: “At that point, I became curious and went to Essi’s house to enquire about the Pastor. She tried him on his phone but there was no response. All we heard was that the phone was switched off.”

Apprehension set in at that point and she reportedly rushed to Ijaniki police division to alert them of the disappearance of her daughter. A policeman was said to have followed Mrs Bassey, who was weeping and at the same time praying for the worst not to happen. But the heaven at that moment seemed to be silent, as the rudest shock of her life occurred at the church, when the policeman reportedly broke the wooden door of one of the rooms, only to be thrown off balance by the sight on the floor.

Right on the floor was Covenant Elijah who could barely be recognized . She was reportedly found stark naked with clot of blood in her virgina, stone dead! The agonizing cries of Mrs Bassey as she kept on shouting ‘Jesus‘ rent the air. This alerted some worshipers who also exclaimed in their different dialects and ran out of the room upon sighting the lifeless remains of the nine-year-old Convenant. But Pastor Ovotoka was no where to be found. Even as you read this story, the Police are still making frantic efforts to trace him.

Crime Guard reliably gathered that preliminary investigation suggested that the late Covenant died of exhaustive sex while the clot of blood from her virgina indicated forceful and deep penetration. It was also discovered that she took no food during her stay with the self acclaimed man of God.

Ironically, the owner of the land used as church is also a member of the church and he also witnessed the gory incident. Unfortunately, the Police felt that he has some explanations to make over the ugly incident and subsequently arrested him. He is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Panti, alongside Essi, the woman that introduced Covenant’s mother to the randy pastor.

Sexual assault of a teenager by youth pastor

MABANK — First Baptist Church of Mabank youth minister Joshua Neal Ponder, 32, was arrested Aug. 13, for sexual assault of teen-ager.

Mabank Police Chief Kyle McAfee said Ponder confessed to charges related to a 16-year-old male victim.

The assault is alleged to have happened April 8, but it was not reported until Aug. 8, according to reports. The teen is not a member of the church.

The Rev. Brent Tucker of First Baptist Church of Mabank, Chairman of the Deacons Randy Teague and Minister of Music Chris Sweet conducted a press conference at the church Thursday. The three released a statement on behalf of the church.

“We are deeply saddened by the circumstances that involve Josh Ponder prior to and during his employment at FBC Mabank,” the statement read. “We lift up in prayer his family and those who have been affected. The FBC Mabank does not condone these alleged actions. ...

“We have accepted the resignation of Ponder effective Aug. 14. We are in prayer for our youth and their parents at this time.”

Ponder is confined in the Kaufman County Law Enforcement Center charged with sexual assault of a child. Bail has been set at $200,000.

Mabank Police say they are investigating possible instances of improper contact with other victims.

Cultist causes death of young person

By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago

BALTIMORE - After denying Javon Thompson food and water for two days because he wouldn‘t say "Amen" after meals, the 1-year-old‘s caretakers waited for a divine sign that their message had been heard: a resurrection.

Instead, Javon‘s body began to decompose.

"The members of this cult, who were more than twice her age, were calling the shots," Ramkissoon‘s attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said Tuesday after a court hearing. "She bought the program hook, line and sinker."

The group never had more than a dozen members. It did not operate out of a remote compound, and the specifics of Antoinette‘s religious beliefs are unclear. However, it meets the definition of a cult, said Rick A. Ross, who has studied cults for 26 years, provided expert testimony and staged hundreds "interventions" to get people out of cults.

Children have been killed in similar groups for failing to follow cult teachings, Ross said, and that appears to have been the case with Javon, who was viewed as a "demon," according to police statements supporting the murder charges.

Khadan-Newton, who moved with her daughter from their native Trinidad when the girl was 8, described Ramkissoon as sweet-natured and trusting. Khadan-Newton is Hindu, but her daughter became a Christian. Ramkissoon‘s church betrayed her trust, her mother said, when its pastor pleaded guilty to molesting boys in the congregation.

"My daughter was very religious. She was into the Bible — obsessed with it," Khadan-Newton said. "They (were) going to show her the right way. She got sucked into it."

"She was brainwashed," she said.

"I fear for (my grandson‘s) and my daughter‘s safety, you see. They are in a cult. I haven‘t seen or heard from my daughter since April," Khadan-Newton wrote in a letter to Circuit Judge Audrey J.S. Carrion about a month before the child died.

Investigators went to an address they were given by the first caller but found it was vacant, Donald said. She said they weren‘t able to follow up because the caller would not leave his name or contact information.

There was no documentation of calls from Khadan-Newton, Donald said.

"It‘s a tragic, tragic situation and we responded with the information that we had in a responsive way and unfortunately it didn‘t change the outcome," she said.

Meanwhile, after cult members abandoned hope of Javon‘s resurrection, they switched to Plan B, police say. Antoinette burned Javon‘s clothing and mattress and put his body in a green suitcase. She stuffed the suitcase with mothballs and fabric softener sheets, and opened it occasionally to spray disinfectant inside.

In early 2007, cult members stored the suitcase behind a home in Philadelphia and relocated to New York City, according to police, who found the suitcase more than a year later, the body still inside.

Not knowing her grandson was dead, Khadan-Newton traveled in February 2008 to the Brooklyn apartment where the group was staying, and spoke to her daughter through an intercom. Ramkissoon called her by her first name, instead of Mom, Khadan-Newton said, and there were long pauses after Khadan-Newton asked questions about Javon‘s whereabouts.

"She said, ‘My son is fine,‘" Khadan-Newton said. "They (were) coaching her and telling her what to say."

In part because of Khadan-Newton‘s contact with a social worker in New York, authorities there tracked down Antoinette and two other cult members wanted in a separate case: Trevia Williams, 21, and Marcus A. Cobbs, 21. They were later charged in Javon‘s death. Ramkissoon returned to Baltimore and was living in a homeless shelter when she was arrested. A fifth person charged in the case, Steven Bynum, 42, is being sought in New York.

Ramkissoon called her mother last Sunday from the city jail. At first, Khadan-Newton didn‘t realize that she was speaking to her daughter — a conversation that reinforced her belief that Ramkissoon remains under the group‘s control.

"She sounded empty, like an empty shell. There was no emotion," Khadan-Newton said. "I was shocked. I didn‘t even recognize her voice. ... It‘s not the same person."

Christian couple arrested

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Maryville congregation has canceled church services after more girls came forward, saying they had been molested by youth leaders - a married couple.

The Daily Times reported Thursday that a hand-lettered sign on the door of the Lord's Disciples Ministries of Whosoever Will stated services were canceled until further notice. It was signed "Pastor Keith."

The Rev. E. Keith Hodge is the church's senior pastor.

Maryville Police arrested Michael and Laura Lee Salazar on Friday and charged them with statutory rape and sexual battery by an authority figure.

They are accused of sexual misdeeds with three 15-year-old girls, who are members of the church.

The church youth pastor brought the girls and their parents to police on Aug. 5.

Authorities say another girl came in the next day with a similar complaint and that, since then, two other girls have come forward.

Hodge released a statement Monday, saying the church had removed the Salazars as youth assistants.

Information from: The Daily Times, http://www.thedailytimes.com

Christian school teacher accused of having sex with student, 15

Warrenton - A former teacher at the North Coast Christian School in Hammond has been accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student.

Warrenton police officers arrested Jeremiah Gunner Scott, 26, of Warrenton. He was also a youth pastor for Warrenton First Baptist Church.

Scott is charged with eight counts of third-degree rape, a felony, and one count each of third-degree sodomy, a felony, contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor and sexual misconduct.

He faces from 90 days to four years in prison for the third-degree rape charges, according to Ron Brown, Clatsop County's chief deputy district attorney. Brown said results of Scott's psychosexual evaluation - should he agree to take one - or whether more victims come forward would be circumstances that sway the length of Scott's sentence, should he be found guilty.

Third-degree rape is not a Measure 11 offense, which would receive mandatory sentencing. The charge was third-degree rape because his alleged victim was 15 years old and sex was consensual, officials said.

Oregon law states that sex of any sort with 12- or 13-year-old victims is second-degree rape and sex with victims younger than 12 is first-degree rape, both Measure 11 crimes.

"We're looking to see if other young girls had similar experiences with Mr. Scott," Brown said. "That's going to be interesting, because the victim's family wonders what kind of supervision their daughter's been getting from the school."

He added that a lot of families send their children from southwest Washington to Astoria-area schools.

Warrenton Police Chief Bob Maxfield said the department received information from the Pacific County, Wash., Sheriff's Office about the case, and the two agencies began a joint investigation. WPD investigators were Officer Ray Ayers and Sgt. Cliff Bussert.

Warrenton police interviewed Scott and arrested him on the charges Aug. 1. Pacific County continues to investigate and is expected to charge him with two counts in connection with the case, Maxfield said.

"It's statutory rape. It was consensual, but her age makes it illegal," Maxfield said. "We've pretty much wrapped up this case."

MANSFIELD -- City police want to hear from News Journal readers who might know something about the John Picard case.

Picard, 40, of Springboro, was arrested last month and charged with 10 counts of sexual battery. He is accused of having sexual relations with a teenage parishioner starting in 1992, when she was 13, and continuing until she reached adulthood. Picard was a youth pastor at Grace Brethren Church on Marion Avenue at the time.

Picard was being held in the Richland County Jail on a $250,000 cash bond.

Police especially want to hear from people who have posted on the forums of the News Journal's Web site.

"There's been a lot of comments, people saying that they've had information," Lt. Allen Vandayburg said. "The one person said Picard had confided in him.

"The ones who lead us to believe they know the most have not come forward. If they're putting that out there for all to see, they should want law enforcement to have that information, I would think."

Vandayburg and Detective Jeff Shook went to Springboro and arrested Picard on July 17.

He waived an extradition hearing and pleaded innocent to all charges.

Shook previously told the News Journal some of the alleged abuse occurred in the church "under cloak of counseling behind closed doors," while other reported incidents happened at Picard's 419 Sloane Ave. residence.

Vandayburg said Picard has not been involved with Grace Brethren for about four years. He reportedly was been working in Springboro for a steel company for some time before moving there three or four months ago. Vandayburg said Picard still has a house for sale in Mansfield.

The Richland County Prosecutor's Office presented Picard's case to the August grand jury earlier this month. Vandayburg wants to make sure police are able to turn over as much evidence as possible.

"We want to make this case so overwhelming," he said. "We don't want to put these girls through a trial."

That's why police are appealing to News Journal readers.

"If he's made admissions, that's what we want to know," Vandayburg said. "This is real important to these girls and their families who want to move on with their lives and put this behind them."

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Minister charged with sex crimes

A prominent Carleton County clergyman and former political candidate has been arrested and charged with sex crimes dating back more than three decades.

Charges against Fred Douglas Hanson, 59, of Somerville were filed simultaneously in courts in Grand Falls and Woodstock on Tuesday.

Charges of sexual assault and indecent acts were filed in Woodstock. One count of sexual interference and three counts of sexual exploitation were filed in Grand Falls.

The RCMP has indicated the charges date back more than 30 years and were over an extended period of time.

Sgt. Dave Vautour of the Woodstock RCMP said Wednesday there are multiple complainants and some were children at the time of the alleged offences.

Hanson stepped down as moderator of the Atlantic Canada Association of Free Will Baptists after the RCMP investigation was revealed in February.

He has also relinquished his post as pastor of the Plaster Rock Free Will Baptist Church. He celebrated his 12th year as pastor of the church last October.

"He has voluntarily stepped down from all positions in our organization," said Jeff Crabtree, pastor at Serenity Free Will Baptist Church in Fredericton and member of the church's ordaining council in New Brunswick.

Hanson is well known throughout the Upper St. John Valley where he came within 247 votes of being elected to the provincial legislature back in 1995 as the candidate for the Progressive Conservative party in Carleton Centre.

He also vied unsuccessfully for a party nomination in Carleton County in 1998.

Hanson took leave from his position as fundraising co-ordinator for the PC New Brunswick Fund in the Upper Valley during the 1998 nomination.

A party official said he cut ties with the Tories after failing to secure the candidacy that year.

Until last winter, Hanson led a congregation of about 50 regular members in Plaster Rock as well as serving as moderator. A 2007 article in One Magazine, billed as The Magazine for Free Will Baptists, indicated the Atlantic Association of Free

Will Baptists had 11 churches.

A congregant who spoke on condition of anonymity said church members were "shocked, saddened, hurt" by the allegations that surfaced last winter.

"It has split the church. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. Some people aren't coming anymore," the congregant said, adding attendance has dropped in half to about 25 people.

The church has been covered by other pastors on a rotational basis since February.

Hanson has served as chairman of Valley Family Resource Centre's board of directors and was also a director of the Community and Residential Living Board.

"He has been very active in the community and always very well thought of," the congregant said.

"He and his wife did a lot of things for people, helping them in various ways."

Hanson is scheduled to enter pleas in court in Woodstock on Tuesday and Aug. 19 in Grand Falls.

Church pastor convicted of child sexual assault

PALO PINTO – A former pastor was found guilty Tuesday afternoon and sentenced to 20 years confinement for inappropriately touching a 14-year-old member of his congregation.

Eric Correa Jimenez, 52, was indicted in February 2007 and arrested on two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, a second-degree felony charge. This week’s trial was pertaining to an offense in July 2006.

According to testimony presented by the juvenile and her parents, Jimenez volunteered to tutor the teenage girl and help her with “emotional problems.” Jimenez was the family’s pastor at Primera Iglesia de Bautista, according to the family’s testimonies.

Through the use of a court-appointed interpreter, the Spanish-speaking mother told jurors Jimenez approached them about their daughter.

“He said to my husband and I he was going to help us because [she] had these emotional conflicts,” the visibly upset mother said. She explained the tutoring sessions – which focused on schoolwork and spiritual things – began around April 2006.

“From that day, he was coming to our house three to four times a week and sometimes every day,” she said. The mother also told jurors Jimenez asked her and her husband to leave the room so he could speak with their daughter.

The daughter took the stand Tuesday afternoon and testified that Jimenez first touched her inappropriately during a tutoring session.

“He was supposed to tutor me and teach me about the classes everyone else was taking [in church],” she said. “He was tutoring me on how to be a better daughter, also with school work and helping me being sad and quiet.”

She testified she started to trust him more as the tutoring session continued. In July, she said their relationship changed and “he started to touch my hand, my leg. He said ‘I love you.’ … At first, I thought it was like my Dad tells me ‘I love you’ or my Mom. He saw me as his daughter.”

The teenager said Jimenez reached under her shirt and touched her breast. “I was in shock. I didn’t know what to do. I trusted him,” she said.

During the course of her testimony and cross-examination, the young woman said she loved Jimenez but after a confrontation involving her father and Jimenez, “it was like a light came on. It was like everything had been dark and that I saw everything was wrong.”

All three members of the family testified to an occurrence on Christmas Day 2006 when Jimenez was seen kissing the juvenile at the kitchen table. Her father summarily threw him from the home, according to the witnesses.

District Attorney Michael Burns told the Index Wednesday after the sentencing he was pleased with the jury’s verdict and punishment. The jury – comprised of eight women and four men – took less than 30 minutes to determine guilt and less than 30 minutes for the sentencing phase, he estimated.

“The evidence in this case was very strong. There was little question of his guilt,” Burns said.

Jimenez was sentenced to 20 years of confinement, the maximum punishment allowed for the crime. He was not assessed a fine by the jurors. According to Burns, “he’ll be eligible for parole in 10 years.”

The jury’s punishment sends a strong message about those who would perpetrate crimes against children, the district attorney said. “Our office will vigorously prosecute those offenders …”

Wednesday’s sentencing is for one of two counts of indecency with a child that Jimenez faced in Palo Pinto County. Officials reported that he also faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault in Parker County.

When asked about the second charge pending in Palo Pinto County, Burns said, “We’re awaiting the outcome on that case [in Parker County]. We’re not through with this defendant yet.”

Jimenez’ court-appointed attorney, Jim Ashby, declined to comment.

Former Sunland pastor gets 32-year prison sentence in molestation case

SAN FERNANDO -- A former Sunland church pastor who molested two girls was sentenced today to 32 years and four months in state prison.

Joseph Gary Torres, 48, whose sentence was handed down by a San Fernando Superior Court judge, was convicted June 26 of 11 counts, including continuous sexual abuse, oral copulation of a minor and sodomy by use of force.

The girls attended Iglesia Bautista Reformada, where the defendant was a pastor.

One of the girls was molested beginning in July 2000 -- when she was 12 or 13 -- until August 2006, while the other was 14 when the abuse began in July 2005 and continued through August 2006, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Torres was arrested in September 2006 by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department's Juvenile Division, and has remained jailed since then.

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Kamuli pastor arrested over defilement

POLICE in Kamuli have arrested a pastor over alleged defilement of a mentally challenged 13-year-old girl, a member of his church.

Yona Malinzi, 30, of the Full Gospel Church in Miseru, Kidera sub-county in Kamuli, was arrested recently and is being detained at Kamuli Central Police Station.

The district Police commander, Frank Abalawuwe, said Malinzi was arrested while leading a church service and transferred to Kamuli for interrogation.

He said the arrest was prompted by the mother of the victim who alleged that Malinzi had made the girl pregnant.

“We are yet to establish the truth if the pastor did this to a young girl who is mentally disturbed and can hardly speak,” Abalawuwe said. Investigations were still going on and Malinzi would be brought to court when they are completed,” he said.

A medical examination confirmed that the girl was six months pregnant.

The mother told the Police that the girl’s father died and Malinzi had offered to look after her.

“He has been rude to me and anyone who tried to take the girl from him. He has always kept indoors with her, who then could have defiled her?” Nalubega said.

However, Malinzi denies the allegations which he said are aimed at tarnishing his reputation.

“The mother is envious of me since I declined to marry her after her husband passed away. I couldn’t marry a woman God had not chosen for me,” Malinzi said from the cells.

Set Free Ministries charged with attempted murder

Bad news today for the Christian biker gang. Set Free Ministries. Six members, along with three members of the Hells Angeles, were arrested in a handful of raids across Southern California. The reason: A July 27 barfight in which members of Set Free allegedly stabbed two Hells Angels.

Among those arrested was Phil Aguilar, Set Free’s founder and leader. Details from the LA Times:

Aguilar’s MySpace page says he is a resident of Anaheim who is also known as the pastor or “the Chief” of the group. Next to his photo is the statement: “Sinner or Saint you be the judge!”

Authorities said the gang has a religious ministry that recruits people discharged from parole, state prison and county jail and has an outreach program for convicted felons.

“It just seems they have a lot of people that have run into law enforcement and the court system,” Schmidt said.

On its website, Set Free Soldiers describes itself as “a group of men who love Jesus and love to ride hard. We are not your normal motorcycle club. Some say we are too good for the bad guys, and too bad for the good guys.

“We don’t argue that,” the statement says. “All we Soldiers know is that we take care of our own and help plenty of others along the way. We try to live right in this wrong world and let our light shine wherever we may go.”

I met a number of the Set Free guys when I was out in San Bernardino. They hosted a weekly Bible study in Rialto that began inside Heroes and Madmen tattoo shop and had grown out onto the sidewalk. I once watched them wash each other’s feet out there as an act of humility.

They were a fellowship of Christian misfits who I thought served a really important niche, though I imagined it was one that often toed the line of lawfulness. Innocent until proven guilty, but things don’t look good today for Set Free.

After the jump is the short vignette I wrote about the group for a package about alternative Christian ministries:

About 25 men, most with leather vests, shaved heads and prominently displayed tattoos, gathered on the sidewalk to wash each others’ feet.

They held Bibles and smoked cigarettes while singing praises to Jesus Christ.

“I see nothing here but the same disciples you see in the Bible,’ said Bryan “Spike’ McGeo, who roared up on his fully loaded, $50,000 Harley-Davidson.

Maybe he’s right. Jesus’ closest followers were a far cry from today’s model Christians. And Jesus did wash the apostles’ feet to set an example of humility.

But most of the people who meet on Mondays in front of Rialto’s Heroes and Madmen tattoo shop on Riverside Avenue would turn heads walking into church.

“We’re reaching out to the outlaw bikers, the people on the streets, the punks those who nobody else wants to deal with,’ said Johnny Neuneker, an unpaid associate pastor for Set Free Rialto and owner of the tattoo shop.

Neuneker joined Set Free last year after starting a Bible study in his parlor’s lobby. He uses his shop to sow the seed of the Gospel on seemingly rocky soil.

Neuneker and others involved with Set Free seem like the kinds of guys and gals you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. But it’s difficult to hold a conversation with them without being asked, “Are you saved?’

They are bent on sharing Christianity with people like Mario Chavez.

When the 36-year-old Colton resident met Neuneker six months ago in a dark alley behind a San Bernardino bar, he wasn’t a resident anywhere.

Chavez was homeless, gangbanging and using drugs. Neuneker handed him a pocket Bible and told him he would become a Christian within three months.

He did.

“They keep it real,’ Chavez said. “All they try to do is show you the way, the truth and the life.’

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Baby Killing

"The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk. The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)

Man files suit against LDS Church, Boy Scouts

BOISE (AP) — A man has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the Boy Scouts and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, claiming the two entities didn't do enough to stop the sexual abuse of children by troop leaders.

The lawsuit was filed in Oregon State Court in eastern Oregon's Malheur County on Thursday by a man identified only as Tom Doe.

Doe alleges that the leader of his Nampa, Idaho, Boy Scout troop sexually abused him for about three years, starting in 1967, and that the abuse left him with debilitating physical, emotional and mental injuries.

Pastor arrested on 2 new charges

A local minister whom authorities have called a major figure in a sophisticated auto-theft ring was arrested on more charges Thursday night, North Charleston police said.

New warrants charge the Rev. Tory Fields with two counts each of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and obtaining money under false pretenses.

"They were issued after two additional victims came forward stating they purchased vehicles from Fields," Police Public Information Officer Spencer Pryor said.

Authorities arrested Fields last month on four charges of possessing a stolen motor vehicle after discovering duplicate vehicle titles at his Goose Creek home. Fields, 34, is the pastor at Union Baptist Church on Meeting Street in Charleston.

The latest affidavits accuse him of selling a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup stolen from a Charlotte Dodge dealership and a 2007 Dodge Magnum stolen from a Savannah Dodge dealership. In each case the stolen vehicle's origin was disguised with a title from a similar salvaged vehicle, according to affidavits.

Investigators said they uncovered the scheme in June after finding stolen vehicles with fake titles.

Police have recovered more than 40 stolen vehicles worth nearly $1 million, Pryor said.

In an interview after the initial arrest, Fields maintained his innocence. He said he bought the vehicles from a wholesaler and was unaware that they were stolen.

Detectives said members of the auto-theft ring would obtain a title for a salvaged vehicle, then steal a similar one. They did this at dealerships by switching fake keys with the real ones while employees weren't paying attention. They returned during off hours to drive the cars away, investigators said.

More than 30 vehicles were thought to have been taken in this way, police said. Police have not identified any suspects involved in the key-switching.

Four other people in addition to Fields have been charged with possessing stolen cars.

Magistrate Linda Lombard set his bond at $20,000 on Friday, and he made bail later in the day.

Ex-church worker accused of sex with boy

Goodyear police arrested Phoenix man this week in connection with nearly decade-old molestation.

On Wednesday, detectives apprehended Jimmy Lee Heiskell, 55, stemming from an allegation that he had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old, police said. He met the boy in an online chat room in 1999, but the abuse was not reported until recently, police said.

Police charged him with three counts of child molestation and six counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

Police said Heiskell used to be a minister at West Valley Assembly of God in Goodyear. But according to Eugene Heiskell, his brother and a pastor at the church, Jimmy Heiskell was never a pastor there.

“He never had any contact with any children while he was here. He was an errand boy for us doing odd jobs,” Eugene Heiskell said.

“We've had very little contact with him in the last few years.”

No further information was available.

Pastor molests relative

A Tyler pastor has been arrested for allegedly molesting a relative at an Austin motel.

Austin police issued a warrant earlier today for Billie Lewis Minson.

Minson is the pastor at the First Baptist Church of Swan, just North of Tyler.

Smith County judicial records say Minson is being held on a 60-thousand dollar bond in the county jail.

Pastor Charged With Molestation In Pasco, Hillsborough

LAND O' LAKES - A Hillsborough County minister surrendered at Land O' Lakes Jail on Tuesday evening to face a charge of lewd or lascivious battery - eight months after facing similar charges in Tampa.

The Rev. Daniel A. Gomez, 38, is accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl at her Pasco County home in summer 2005, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

Gomez went to the girl's home when her parents were not there and forced himself on her, kissing her and touching her in a sexual manner, a sheriff's office report states. Gomez reportedly took off his pants and removed the girl's pants, too, and attempted to have sex with her.

The girl, now a teenager, reported the abuse in November, sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin said. The investigation has been ongoing. The girl told authorities she didn't come forward sooner because she had not told her mother what happened, Tobin said.

Authorities would not say whether the girl was a parishioner of Gomez's church. She knew he was a minister, which is why she let him into her home, they said.

Gomez was pastor of the Center of Unction Church of the Nazarene in Brandon. He has been placed on unpaid leave pending the outcome of the investigation, said officials at the Central Florida District Churches of the Nazarene, which oversees Gomez's parish.

"We are fully cooperating with the authorities in this investigation," Larry Dennis, superintendent of the Central Florida District Church of the Nazarene, says in a written statement released Wednesday. "Any comments made before the investigation is complete would be premature. The safety of our youth in our churches is extremely important to us. Our prayers and concern go out to all those involved."

According to the report, Gomez recently told the girl's mother what happened.

Gomez, of 8239 Durham Station Drive, Tampa, is being held at Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $10,000.

In November, Gomez was arrested by Hillsborough deputies on three counts of lewd or lascivious molestation of a person younger than 18, records show. The victim in that case is the same as in the Pasco case, said J.D. Callaway, Hillsborough sheriff's office spokesman.

There were several instances of sexual contact from April through November 2005 at Gomez's house and at another location in Hillsborough that Callaway declined to disclose.

Callaway would not say whether the girl was a member of Gomez's church.

"We're not going to describe their relationship," he said.

Callaway said the girl told her mother about the Hillsborough County incidents in November and went to authorities.

"They were just trying to work it out amongst themselves," he said. "Obviously, it was a very horrible, traumatic experience."

Hillsborough detectives are still investigating Gomez.