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Adult youth pastor arrested after allegedly sending sexually explicit material to a minor

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FOUNTAIN — An adult youth pastor has been arrested after allegedly sending sexually explicit material to a minor in his youth group.

The Fountain Police Department began investigating the report on Oct. 13, 2022. The investigation led to 38-year-old Jeffery Williams' arrest on Nov. 10.

Williams was a pastor at the 901 N. Santa Fe Ave. Salvation Army location in Fountain.

Police say Williams turned himself in and was booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on unlawful sexual communication in a position of trust and obscenity.

Detectives with FPD are looking for additional witnesses or victims who may have information about this.

If you have any information, please contact Corporal Tori Slater at (719) 382-4288. To remain anonymous, contact call Crime Stoppers Tip Line at (719) 634-STOP (7867) or 1-800-222-8477.
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Texas Pastor Caught with ‘BDSM’ and Bestiality-Themed Child Pornography Voluntarily Admitted He Has an Addiction, Feds Say

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A 56-year-old pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Round Rock, Texas who was caught with”BDSM” and bestiality-themed child pornography in his possession admitted he has an addiction, the Department of Justice alleges. David Lloyd Walther now faces federal charges for distribution, receipt, transportation and possession of child pornography.

According to the affidavit, which Law&Crime is not sharing in this instance because of how detailed it is, the pastor had a “BDSM” folder containing an image of a nude boy with a collar on his neck and being sexually abused, a similar image of a female toddler, and images of nude young boys and girls being restrained by ropes and tools. A “Zoo” folder allegedly contained a bestiality video involving a dog and a female toddler “likely less than three years old.”

The feds allege that the defendant also downloaded several videos through BitTorrent showing young girls being sexually abused by adult men.

Authorities said they were able to trace the downloads to an IP address connected to the pastor’s church.

“On or about September 18, 2022, at 0015 hours, a successful download of child pornography was obtained from IP address 69.212.115.82 via BitTorrent. On October 6, 2022, information from AT&T, in response to legal process, indicated that the subscriber of IP address 69.212.115.82, at 0015 hours on September 18, 2022, was Defendant WALTHER at his personal residence in Georgetown, Texas. IP Address 69.212.115.82 is a static IP address and has been assigned only to Defendant WALTHER’s residence since May 3, 2022, when Walther’s account was initialed at that location,” the affidavit said.

Authorities said that they executed search warrants on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Walther’s home.

“From in or about August 2022 through November 9, 2022, in the Western District of Texas, Defendant WALTHER did knowingly and unlawfully commit one or more of the following offenses: Distribution / Receipt / Transportation / Possession of Child Pornography (18 U.S.C. § 2252A),” the arrest warrant said.

The defendant agreed to speak with federal agents voluntarily and was told he wasn’t under arrest at that time, the affidavit said.

The defendant allegedly admitted he had a “pornography addiction and would often go through cycles of downloading and viewing pornography depicting both adults and minors” and that “when he viewed the child pornography, the children depicted were between 8 and 17 years old, either posing sexually or engaged in sex acts with adults or other children,” the affidavit said, apparently summarizing but not quoting the defendant’s statement.

Walther admitted he had a habit of “purging” the illicit files when he felt guilty, knowing that what he had done was wrong, the affidavit said.

Appearing to seal his own fate, Walther allegedly agreed to be interviewed again by an FBI agent and waived his Miranda rights.

What followed was an apology and several admissions, the affidavit said. Walther allegedly claimed, however, that he didn’t know he was also distributing the illicit files through BitTorrent:

a. that he apologized for his actions;
b. that he knew and understood child pornography involves images/videos
depicting graphic sexual conduct with an underage child;
c. that he knew that an underage or minor child is anyone under the age of 18;
d. that he would specifically search for, download and possess child pornography via BitTorrent, and unknowingly distribute child pornography via BitTorrent.

According to the DOJ, Walther faces up to 20 years behind bars if convicted as charged. If the case trends toward reaching a deal, based on the alleged confession, he could stand to receive a lighter sentence than he would if he goes to trial and loses.

Walther is being prosecuted in the Western District of Texas. Federal court records reviewed by Law&Crime show that he was ordered detained in the “custody of the United States Marshal or any other authorized officer” pending a 2 p.m. hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Lane on Nov. 16. Prosecutors argued he was a flight risk and that the case involved a “crime of violence.”

The pastor’s church website and church Facebook page are both offline as of this writing.

But there are still some videos of the preacher still on Instagram, one in which he wishes the congregation a Merry Christmas and another where he delivers a Memorial Day-themed sermon.

“Memorials are important and demonstrated throughout the Bible,” a caption on the latter post reads.

Walther’s current legal predicament is likely to be remembered as well.

[Images via Williamson County Jail, Instagram/myfaithbc screengrab]

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Pastor at local church in Wildomar arrested for alleged lewd acts with a child

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A pastor at a local church in Wildomar has been arrested for alleged lewd acts with a child, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.

Investigators with RCSD’s Special Victims Unit responded to allegations of the incident on Nov. 8, just before 9:30 p.m., according to Sgt. Joshua Parker.

Detectives determined that 55-year-old Fredy Gonzalez, a church pastor, “committed lewd sexual acts with a child” in the 32000 block of Blue Terrance Street in Wildomar.

The 55-year-old was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Center on Wednesday.

Anyone with information regarding this case was encouraged to contact Investigator Ruben Martinez at 951-203-2999.
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Wenatchee Bible study leader accused of sexually abusing group members

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WENATCHEE — Police arrested a 69-year-old Wenatchee man on suspicion of rape Tuesday after two other men accused him of sexually molesting them while they were asleep or otherwise unable to consent.

Michael E. Wilson was identified in a Wenatchee police court affidavit as the leader of a Bible study group that met at his Sunnyslope home. The alleged victims were members of the study group, both men in their 20s.

In Chelan County Superior Court on Wednesday, deputy prosecutor Julia Hartnell told Judge Travis Brandt that Wilson cultivated and victimized young men "using the cover of the church." She said her office is considering charges of second- and third-degree rape, as well as second-degree attempted rape.

The prosecutor's office has until Nov. 14 to file charges. Wilson remained jailed Wednesday in the Chelan County Regional Justice Center on $1 million bond. He's due to be arraigned Nov. 21.

Both alleged victims told police the incidents took place between 2020 and 2022. One man said in separate instances, Wilson fondled him while he was sleeping, and touched him inappropriately while giving massages. The other said Wilson initiated unwanted sexual contact in July 2022, while the alleged victim was drunk and unconscious.

Police said in an interview Tuesday with a Wenatchee detective, Wilson admitted to sexual contact with both men, but said the contact was consensual or inadvertent.

Wilson previously worked as a youth pastor in Wenatchee and in Pendleton, Oregon. Wenatchee School District records and his LinkedIn account also show he worked at Wenatchee High School as an academic intervention specialist from 2001 to 2013, when he became a service specialist with the Wenatchee Learns personalized education program. Communications director Diana Haglund said Wilson's employment with the school district ended in 2019.

Since 2020 Wilson has conducted a faith-based self-help podcast series with Myke Merrill, a Rochester, New York Christian counselor.
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Yup. Also, a great many children are safer in drag queen story hours than they are at home.
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Or a Boy Scout meeting. Never been to a drag queen story hour. Although I did see a floor show at "The Jewel Box" in Kansas City in 1966 (a notorious gay bar then) that featured a drag queen comedians)

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Jesus Christ!  I was a Boy Scout (earned my Eagle, like snailgate), as well as an altar boy at our Catholic church.  My parents gave me a bike when I was seven, and by the time I was ten or eleven my buddies and I would ride our bikes literally anywhere we wanted to in our hometown (populaton 45,000) just so long as we were back home by suppertime (or dark, if afterwards).

We played 'Army', 'Cops and Robbers', and 'Cowboys and Indians' with toy guns that actually looked like guns, not plastic replicas molded in colors never before seen in the natural world, and nobody said a fuckin' word about it.  A couple of us even had BB guns or .22 rifles... but we knew our dads would have used them to whup our ass until they (the guns) were broken if we ever used them to shoot at someone.

Occasionally one of us would get hurt. We'd somehow manage to get home and get patched up by "Dr. Mom", whose medicine cabinet included such cure-alls as Vicks Vap-o-Rub, Robitussin cough syrup, Band-aids, and the ever-present bottle of merthiolate or tincture of iodine. We'd almost wish for a broken arm, since that meant a trip to the REAL doctor — and if you were REALLY lucky, a plaster cast, the one thing that could make even a dork or a spaz someone cool enough to hang around with for a while!

We walked four blocks back and forth to parochial grade school (including back and forth for lunch), and when we got older, rode our bikes to middle or high school... until a kid got his 'temps' and was able to maybe con his old man out of the family car — or blew $150 on a second-hand beater of his very own!

We were never so paranoid that we were constantly worried about a firefight breaking out at the playground become someone 'dissed' someone; we weren't looking askance at every stranger like they were someone with a old panel van offering us candy; we weren't spending time in programs at school instructing us how to 'shelter in place' in case of an active shooter scenario, or learning the proper way to use a condom, or what words, pictures, or even colors were supposed to 'offend' or 'trigger' us — and most importantly, neither did our parents.

We were kids growing up in the way kids had grown up for the previous two or three generations.  NOW that's called 'free-range parenting', with the obligatory sneer or curled lip as one delivers the term.

What da fuck happened??

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There are definitely lower risks of crimes against children in the places they don't go, or that are imaginary, than in places they do go.

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To be fair it seems that allegedly pastors are no worse than cops allegedly:
Ex-Detective in Kansas Helped Men Run Sex Trafficking Operation, U.S. Says

Women and girls, who were as young as 13, experienced violence, abuse, rape and death threats from 1996 to 1998, according to a federal indictment.

A former police detective in Kansas who was charged in September with sexually assaulting two women while on duty more than two decades ago now faces new federal charges that he helped three other men run a violent sex trafficking operation that preyed on underage girls in the 1990s, the Justice Department said on Monday.

The former detective, Roger Golubski, 69, and the other men were each charged with one count of conspiring to hold young women in a condition of involuntary servitude and one count of forcing a woman to provide sexual services to adult men, including themselves, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Kansas.

The three other men — Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson, who the authorities said had been emboldened and shielded for years by Mr. Golubski — were also charged with holding a woman in involuntary servitude and forcing her to provide sexual services to Mr. Roberson, according to the indictment, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.

If convicted of all crimes, the men could each face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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So it would appear that children are also safer in drag queen story hours than with pigs cops.
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I think it’s a little bit sick for a person of religion to make light of this issue. All over this country people are rejecting the church - name a brand the numbers are down except the most brainwashed, the mega church evangelicals. People have lost trust in the church in a major way because the church has poo-pooed and even actively enabled the RAPE OF THEIR CHILDREN. Not just the Catholic Church, the Protestants have their own sick church child rape sex scandals.

At very least I would expect any actively practicing religious person to take the matter seriously and not poke fun.
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A slight misapprehension. The target is the sententious use of "drag-queen story hour" as a standard of comparison.

Children are more exposed to danger in churches, schools, scout troops, sports teams, etc - activities engaged in by large numbers of children - than in (say) Starbucks. Is that supposed to be anything other than meaningless drivel?

If a subject needs to be discussed, discuss it and stop with the woke applause for rubbish
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You’re like a walking example of why people are walking away from churches in droves. Good on ya!
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I have said nothing whatsoever belittling the awful situation of child abuse, in churches or elsewhere.

Why do you insist on insulting me because another person pretends there is a valid comparison between drag queens and churches?

I guess you know what 'sententious' means?
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The whole point is that the Christian Right/Moral Majority/Evangelicals/etc stated that exposing kids to Drag Queens was dangerous for the children. When in fact the activities touted as "Morally Right" like Scouting, Prayer Groups, Church Activities are far more likely to have a pedo running them. They villanize Gay/Trans people as dangerous when the real danger are people in power who claim to be part of the "Christian Right".
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I appreciate that explanation, dats. "Christian Right/Moral Majority/Evangelicals/etc" seems a broad brush. I'd not feel comfortable with Moral Majority as a self-descriptor. I'm a Christian tending to the Right (sometimes) and, it turns out, may not be much of an Evangelical if that means the ones who spread the gospel at every opportunity. Not sure if etc applies.

Do they really say that homosexuals and transgender persons are a physical threat to children? Or are they concerned with an existential threat to the ordering of society? Neither would surprise me although the first is ridiculous and offensive whereas the second is at least rational (I don't say correct).

It is well-known that child molestation occurs where "trusted" adults mingle with numerous children. Church/religious environs are sought out by such people, as are athletic teams, schools, universities, hospitals, and so on but they don't seem to arouse righteous indignation. Evidently some people lie about faith as easily they do about other things.
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Wed Nov 16, 2022 12:18 am
It is well-known that child molestation occurs where "trusted" adults mingle with numerous children. Church/religious environs are sought out by such people, as are athletic teams, schools, universities, hospitals, and so on but they don't seem to arouse righteous indignation. Evidently some people lie about faith as easily they do about other things.
What are you talking about?

There are numerous major documentaries about the predation of hundreds of female gymnasts by the pedophile sports doctor they were all mandated to be examined and treated by. The case drew nationwide attention for a long time and people were outraged and protesting his trial and media reported extensively on days of victim statements preceding his sentencing.

There are also many documentaries on children abused in Scouting and by teachers and those subjects have been well covered in the news with more than righteous indignation being expressed by the public.

If anything this country is far too fast to react extremely to any suggestions of child sexual abuse, as evidenced by the daycare panics of the 80s which destroyed numerous families who were wrongly accused and in some cases convicted. We are still working on a balance, with far too many kids abused and never getting justice.

Most children, of course, are molested and raped by a parent or grandparent or uncle or other family member. That’s the truth we don’t like to talk much about.
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"Children are safer in drag queen story hours than in church".

I wonder how many children have been injured or molested during gospel at a Catholic Mass?

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Is Mass the only time that children are in church or in the company of church leaders?
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