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What Wouldn't Jesus Do?: Preacher Randy Scott Extorts Pedophiles Into Having Sex with Him
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 9:00 am
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Kingdom Builders Church of Jesus Christ Pastor Donald Crosby had a hard-scrabble life in the Bronx. He lived through some violent encounters that prompted his family to move frequently. After "giving into family, peer, and life's pressures, he began a downhill spiral into smoking, drinking, fornication, and every sin that the devil made available to him." (In other words, he used to be a pretty fun guy.)
After God rescued him, Crosby apparently made himself general in His war against demons -- as in the mascot of the Warner Robins High School football team, the Screamin' Demons. The team's 60-year-old moniker comes from the 7th Fighter Squadron at Robins Air Force base, who earned the nickname fighting in the South Pacific in WWII.
The 36-year old Georgia preacher believes that pep rallies with hundreds of kids chanting "Go Demons" is some kind of cosmic counterweight to people in church shouting "Hallelujah Jesus," and must be stopped. He also doesn't want his son going to the school, and has put in for a transfer. However, it appears not liking the mascot isn't sufficient grounds for overriding zoning rules.
Admittedly, the wall of their gymnasium features a suave-looking caped, pitchfork-wielding horned devil, but frankly, I'm far more worried about the vampires and fast-moving zombies. When's he going to take up a crusade that really matters?
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When King's Grant Baptist Church sat down with their new financial administrator a few weeks after hiring her, they said they'd like to find some ways to save more money. She told them one way would be less embezzling.
Apparently when their new adviser went over the books, she discovered that the prior financial administrator at the Virginia Beach church, Michele Roberts, had embezzled $287,600 from 2004 through March of this year. She'd been with the church for 12 years, and though she wasn't a member of the congregation, they trusted her implicitly. When she resigned in May, she said it was time for her to move onto the next phase in her life. D'ya think she knew it would involve and orange jumpsuit?
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There are plenty of men over thirty who aren't ready for a relationship, so why would Sante Fe, New Mexico's Kristina Bibb expect more from a 17-year old? The 37-year old financial secretary at Christian Life Academy pressed the boy after their illicit fling, prompting him to file his first restraining order. (A male rite of passage in some circles.)
In it he wrote that Bibb and he became "intamently (sic) involved with while I was still a minor. She is now sending me e-mails and voice mails blaming me for what happened. This is really bothering me and I need it to stop." My Lord, woman, how's he gonna commit when he can't even spell "intimate"?
Bibb has a few connections, and as a result she was only charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. If that sounds like a quaint colloquialism, it's an equally mild charge -- a 4th degree felony that's not even a sex crime. If she completes five years of unsupervised probation and completes all the treatment recommended by her therapist, the case is dropped.
It might've helped a wee bit that her dad is former New Mexico Governor Toney Anaya, and she's married (at least for the moment) to 2006 Republican Attorney General nominee and lawyer Jim Bibb.
As for the teen, he obviously needs to work on mastering the old "it's not you, it's me" line.
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Perhaps the most maddening thing about the epidemic of priestly sex abuse cases is the utter indifference with which the church long approached these transgressions. Case in point: Phillip Jacobs, who was drummed out of the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio in 1993 after 18 years there after ten credible allegations of abuse emerged.
So he moved on to Canada, where he informed the Diocese of Victoria of his past. ("Hi, my name is Phillip and I'm a pedophile.") They allowed him to work after two psychiatric evaluations -- one by the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development -- declared he was not at risk of committing abuse again. Because, you know, they're so good at determining that kind of thing.
Jacobs, now 60, was hired at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in '96, but retired in 2002 after the Ohio allegations came to light. Now, two accounts of abuse have emerged from while Jacobs was at St. Joseph. (Cue Britney Spears' "Oops!... I Did It Again.")
Police said all of the victims that have come forward are under the age of 14, which would mean they were pretty young when they were allegedly abused. Police indicates that when the charges first came to light there in '02, one local victim came forward, but they didn't have enough to charge him.
Cue Alfred E. Neuman's signature "What me, worry?" shrug from the clergy.
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Television can be a great learning tool, just ask Bryan, Texas preacher George Randall Scott, who presumably learned from Dateline how to conduct his own pedophile sting, and score himself some pervert pipe.
The 51-year old Assembly of God minister at Bryan's Bethel Temple Church placed an ad in Craigslist's Men-to-Men section, masquerading as a 20-year old male looking for some companionship. When he got an email response back he would tell them that he was only 16. If they were still interested, he would then arrive at their house claiming to be the boy's stepfather and blackmail them into allowing him to service them to ensure his silence.
He has admitted to having coerced sexual encounters with ten men. What's even stranger is that he tried to make post-coital small talk with one of the men, and texted later about how much he enjoyed meeting them, how he had them in his heart, finally reassuring them, "UR a good egg." (This is your brain on drugs.)
Scott has resigned from the church after 20 years. According to one church member, he was a popular pastor who baptized many of the church's members. No word yet on whether baptismal by weirdo homo extortionist preachers still counts.
Read last Tuesday's What Wouldn't Jesus Do?: Bob Silverman Steals $222,000 From his Disabled Sister.
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