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A Real Duke Rape Case

By Selwyn Duke / The New American
We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden” black woman of modest means and three “privileged” white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the stripper’s story hadn’t changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in prison currently. But now we have a real Duke rape case, and one that largely conforms to the above narrative. Frank Lombard, Duke’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, faces federal criminal charges for offering his adopted five-year-old son for sex. Where are the parallels? Lombard is white and well-to-do while his victim, the son, is black (Lombard also has a second adopted son, who is black as well).
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`Gay' Duke U. Official Attempts to Sell Black 5-Year-Old Son for Sex

Frank Lombard is an associate director at Duke University's Global Health Institute and a homosexual who was charged last week with the molestation of his adopted 5-year-old black son and actively trying to sell him for sex on the internet. The 40 words above are 40 more than the Main Stream Media has said on this horrible story. In nearly a week since Lombard was arrested, not one national broadcast or cable television news show has picked up the story. Compare this to the weeks on end of sensational coverage of the white male lacrosse players of the same university charged with rape several years ago.
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Affidavit Details Child Sex Charges
DURHAM, NC -- A federal affidavit submitted by a Washington, D.C., detective tells a chilling story of the abuse of a 5-year-old adopted boy. The child's father, Frank McCorkle Lombard, 42, of Indigo Creek Trail in Durham, is charged with sex offense with a child, and is accused of persuading someone to cross state lines for illegal sexual activity. Lombard, a Duke University administrator, was released from the Durham County jail into U.S. marshals' custody Tuesday and is expected to face a federal judge in Washington within the next week. If convicted, he could face as long as 20 years in prison.

Adulterous S.C. Governor Resists Pressure to Resign

Sanford Losing Support of Republicans
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford defied calls for his resignation yesterday from GOP leaders, insisting he will remain in office even as his political fortunes dimmed in the wake of his admission that he secretly traveled abroad to meet a mistress. Nearly two dozen GOP lawmakers called on Sanford to step down, saying he has lost credibility, in part by making such personal comments to the Associated Press, some of which contradicted earlier statements. "What we saw in that interview was just him being irrational," state Sen. Larry A. Martin (R) said in an interview. "The very idea that he would be that candid, that frank, that brutally honest about his feelings for the woman in Argentina versus his wife versus the other girlfriends, I just find that incredible. Rational people don't do that."
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Baptist Youth Pastor Charged With Child Rape

A Knox County youth pastor is charged with two counts of rape of a child and sexual exploitation of a minor. Officers with the Knox County Sheriff's Office arrested 45-year-old Randall Thomas Hollifield at his Powell home Tuesday night, after conducting a search warrant at the house. A press release from the Sheriff's office says Hollifield is the youth pastor at New Beverly Baptist Church, and works for Match Maker Inc.
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Trial Ordered For Retired Waukesha County Deputy Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Children

WAUKESHA -- A retired Waukesha County sheriff's deputy was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on 19 felony charges accusing him of sexually assaulting two children. Terrence L. Greenwald, 55, of Summit was ordered by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge William Hue to stand trial after a preliminary hearing in which the victims, a boy and a girl, testified. The victims, now 17 and 19, testified Wednesday that the assaults occurred over a 10-year period, ending on Sept. 1, 2008.
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Teacher Lisa Lavoie Pleads Not Guilty to Rape of Boy

A former Massachusetts schoolteacher who was found with a student at a West Virginia motel has pleaded not guilty to rape. Lisa Lavoie, 24, was arraigned Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court in Massachusetts on three counts of aggravated rape and abuse and three counts of statutory rape. Lavoie and a 15-year-old student were reported missing Feb. 16 and were found a week later. She was fired from her job. Lavoie already pleaded not guilty in March to enticing a minor. Her attorney, David Hoose, says the new charges were not unexpected.
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Victim Says Homophobia Still A Major Problem `But There's A Way to Heal Homophobia'

On the 10-year anniversary of one of the north state's most infamous hate crimes, Jason York says the homophobia that led to the killings of gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder is still alive and well. York, who married Jeramie Henderson in October before the passage of Proposition 8, walked to his car early Friday in his south Redding neighborhood to find homophobic slurs roughly scratched all over it.

Healing Homophobia
Whenever someone is quoted in the press using the word homophobe the application of this word is misused and confusing. Understanding the correct usage of this word will help identify people who are suffering from this affliction and as a result place them on the road to recovery.
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Ex-Edwards Aide Appears At Federal Courthouse

RALEIGH, N.C. -- An ex-aide to John Edwards who claimed he fathered a child born to the mistress of the two-time Democratic presidential candidate spent Wednesday in a federal courthouse, but declined to talk with a reporter about an investigation into his former boss. With his lawyer at his side, Andrew Young at about 8:30 a.m. walked into the building in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting. The longtime Edwards loyalist simply smiled as he went by and declined to comment. He did not leave through a public entrance, and his attorney, David Geneson, did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press. A few months before the crucial 2008 caucuses in Iowa, where Edwards placed second to eventual President Barack Obama, Young publicly declared that he was the father of Rielle Hunter's baby. Edwards has admitted to an affair with Hunter that he says ended in 2006. That year, Edwards' political action committee paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007.
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Hundreds of Filthy Sex Offenders Gather in White House

ABC News
"When hundreds of leaders from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community gathered in the East Room of the White House Monday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the launch of the gay rights movement, President Obama worked to assuage concerns that his administration has not made much progress in addressing gay issues."
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Baptist Deacon Sentenced to 225 Years for Molesting Three Girls

ROCKY MOUNT, VA -- Several character witnesses testified Monday on Dean Harold Stone's behalf during his trial on molestation charges, including two ministers who have counseled him. One said Stone is seeking biblical forgiveness, as well as the forgiveness of the victims. But despite the talk of forgiveness and repentance, Franklin County Circuit Court Judge William Alexander imposed sentences that exceeded the state's guidelines on the 12 charges Stone faced. Stone is a danger to young girls, Alexander said, imposing a 225-year sentence. Stone, 45, pleaded guilty in April to the 12 felony sex crimes, which included nine charges of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of inanimate or animate object sexual penetration. The incidents occurred between 2006 and 2008 when two of the girls were 13 or younger, and the third was between the ages of 14 and 16.
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Baptist Deacon Sentenced on Sex Charges
VINTON, VA -- A former church deacon at a church in Vinton, accused of molesting three teenage girls, has been sentenced to 225-years in prison. Dean Harold Stone pleaded guilty in April to 12 felony sex charges for the offenses that happened between 2006 and 2008. The sentence comes a week before the church's former assistant pastor is scheduled to be sentenced for an unrelated sex crime. Donald Silverman faces up to 20-years in prison for sexual battery on a Roanoke County child.
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`God Mocking' Judge Wants Washington D.C. to Recognize Homosex 'Marriages'

A Superior Court judge decided yesterday not to delay enactment of a law stipulating that the D.C. government will recognize homosex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. `God mocker' judge Judith E. Retchin ruled that she would not a grant a stay preventing the law from taking effect Monday, as requested by opponents of gay marriage. Attorneys for the group argued that they needed more time to research and argue their position before the law takes effect.
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The Fix: Sanford Admits to More Contact With Mistress

Sanford's very candid interview with the AP has the potential to derail what looked to be the increasing likelihood that he would hold on to his job. The most problematic admission by Sanford in the interview is that he had strayed with other women but had not had sex with them. Add that startling revelation to a number of odd quotes Sanford gave regarding his affair -- that his mistress "is his soul mate, but he will try to fall back in love with his wife" among others -- and you can see how Sanford has managed to pour fuel on a fire that appeared to be nearly out.
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South Carolina AG Calls for Investigation of Sanford Travel

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster is seeking a review of Gov. Mark Sanford's travel records in the wake of new admissions about the length of his affair with an Argentine mistress and the number of times he secretly met with her. McMaster has requested the State Law Enforcement Division review any and all records related to Sanford's movements to determine if any laws have been broken.
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A Real Duke Rape Case

By Selwyn Duke / The New American
We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden” black woman of modest means and three “privileged” white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the stripper’s story hadn’t changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in prison currently. But now we have a real Duke rape case, and one that largely conforms to the above narrative. Frank Lombard, Duke’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, faces federal criminal charges for offering his adopted five-year-old son for sex. Where are the parallels? Lombard is white and well-to-do while his victim, the son, is black (Lombard also has a second adopted son, who is black as well).
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Lawsuit Claims Homosex Priest Molested Altar Boy in 1990s

ORANGE, CA -- A 29-year-old man is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, alleging he was sexually abused by a priest when he was as an altar boy at St. Norbert Church in the 1990s. The man, who is identified in the lawsuit only as John DC Doe, alleges he was molested from 1990 to 1992 and that the diocese knew about the molestations and did nothing to stop it. The priest is not named in the lawsuit, but the man's attorney, Rebecca Rhoades, identified the priest as Monsignor Sinon Falvey.
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United Methodist Pastor Sentenced In Child Porn Case

DALLAS -- A former Texas pastor who admitted having more than 600 images of child pornography on his church computer has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. The U.S. attorney's office in Dallas says 36-year-old Steve Richardson was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay. The former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Royse City pleaded guilty in March to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
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Royse City Pastor Gets 17 Years In Federal Child Porn Case
A former Royse City minister was sentenced Monday to 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to possessing and sending child pornography from his computer to others via the Internet. Steve Richardson, 36, former pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Royse City east of Dallas, was sentenced in Dallas by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, who ordered him to serve a lifetime of supervised release and register as a sex offender, according to federal prosecutors.

Kneeling Woman's Cash Stolen In Church

WESTBURY, N.Y. -- Nassau County police said a congregant at a Long Island church disregarded at least one of its commandments: Thou shalt not steal. Police said the 46-year-old woman reached over a pew and took cash from a purse while its owner knelt at Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church in Westbury. Police said an usher saw the theft, and officers stopped the woman as she left the church. Police said they determined the same woman stole cash from another worshipper's purse while that victim took communion May 10.
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Pope Signs New Encyclical for a Globalization (One World) Economy

Pope Benedict XVI signed his latest encyclical Monday, a text on ways to make globalization more attentive to meeting the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis. Benedict has frequently spoken out on the financial crisis, urging leaders to ensure the world's poor don't end up bearing the brunt of the downturn even though they are not responsible for it. He has said the downturn shows the need to rethink the whole global financial system.
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Italian Newspaper Reveals Key Paragraphs
from Pope's Upcoming Social Encyclical
Rome, Italy -- “In the midst of the new international economic, commercial and financial context,” the Pope will suggest an international agreement to lead the process of globalization: “an authority that should be regulated by law, should stick coherently to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, should be aimed at achieving the common good and committed to fostering an authentic integral human development, inspired in the values of charity and truth.”

Obama Reaffirms Support for Homosexual Agenda

WASHINGTON -- Countering criticism that he's done little on gay rights, President Barack Obama commemorated the 40th anniversary of the birth of the modern movement by welcoming its leaders to the White House and reaffirming his commitment to their top priorities. "I want you to know: You have our support," Obama told members of the core Democrat constituency as he and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a cocktail-and-appetizer reception in the East Room for gay pride month. It's been some four decades since the police raid on New York City's gay Stonewall Inn that spurred gay rights activism across the country.
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Obama Honors Homosexual Rioters
By John Lofton / The American View - Radio:
"Grounds For Impeachment": Obama Honors Homosexual Rioters Who, Among Other Things, Tried to Set Fire to Murder Cops At "Stonewall Inn" In New York City In 1969. That's the disgusting topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network.

`Gay' Duke U. Official Arrested for Homosex Child Molestation

A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said. An unidentified informant who already faces child porn charges in a different child sex case pointed investigators to Lombard, according to court documents. The informant told investigators he had met Lombard on the Internet four years ago. The informant described in graphic detail how he allegedly observed Lombard molesting an African-American child on four occasions over an Internet video chat service called ICUii.
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Cops: Duke Official Offered Adopted Son For Sex
FBI Nab Frank Mccorkle Lombard In Internet Sting
A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex. Frank Mccorkle Lombard, the school's associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday, June 24 after an Internet sting, according to the FBI's Washington field office and the city's police department.

Bar Mitzvah Tutor Convicted of Homosex Abuse

JAY STREET -- A Bar Mitzvah tutor was convicted Wednesday of seven counts of sexual abuse in the second degree and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, for sexually abusing two boys, the Brooklyn District Attorney announced. Yona Weinberg, a 31-year-old social worker from Flatbush, was originally charged with sexually abusing four male students. The indictment had charged Weinberg with course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree, nine counts of sexual abuse in the second degree, attempted sexual abuse in the second degree, and six counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
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Assemblies of God Pastor Charged With Sexual Abuse Had Past Problems

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A pastor who has been charged with sexually abusing four women in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had previously been accused of misconduct at two Lincoln churches and fired by the Lincoln school district. Efrain Umana's attorney told the Omaha World-Herald that he plans to plead not guilty to the Iowa charges. Umana posted bond and is free awaiting trial. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for July 24. He lives in Lincoln. Details about the past allegations against the 53-year-old Umana are described in a Lancaster County, Neb., lawsuit that was settled in 2007.
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Keeper of St. Norbert Church Pedo-Priests Now Accused of Boy Rape

ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- What is it about the pastors of St. Norbert Church in Orange and their predilection for protecting pedo-priests? The most recent example was Cirilo Flores, who is now an auxiliary bishop under Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown; the most notorious example was John Urell, who famously cracked during a deposition digging into his days as the man in charge of "investigating" the pedophiles who terrorized county parishes for decades. I guess they just learned from their elders; after all, longtime St. Norbert pastor Sinon Falvey was in charge of two pedo-priests during his tenure from 1969 to 1989: John Kenney and John Lenihan. God smote the first John in a 1977 car accident; with Lenihan, Falvey moved him along to my home parish of St. Boniface in Anaheim.
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Deadline Looms for Sex-Abuse Cases

DELAWARE -- The two-year window of Delaware's 2007 Child Victim's Act is about to close, putting an end to a steady stream of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that dates to the 1950s and reaches to churches, schools and private homes. The 2007 law eliminated the civil statute of limitations in such cases and opened the two-year period during which cases previously barred by the time limit could be filed. More than 140 cases had been filed as of Friday, attorneys said, and lawmakers last week unanimously approved legislation to clarify that the deadline for the cases should be July 9 -- marking exactly two years since Gov. Ruth Ann Minner signed the act into law. Some judges and attorneys previously thought the window closes Tuesday, the last day of the fiscal year.
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Group asks Diocese of Youngstown to Seek Out Abuse Victims

A support group for clergy sex-abuse victims published a letter Wednesday publicly urging the Diocese of Youngstown to send a second, more emphatic and explicit letter to hundreds of Catholics who attended a school where a now-suspended priest worked. SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the nation’s oldest and largest support group for clergy-abuse victims. Earlier this month, the Rev. Thomas Crum admitted sexually abusing a child and was suspended from his pulpit at Our Lady of Peace Church in Canton.
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Man Sues Archdiocese, Alleges Homosex Abuse

A Baltimore County man in his 40s is suing the Archdiocese of Baltimore for an undisclosed amount of money, alleging negligence by the Roman Catholic Church after what he claims were years of sexual molestation by one of its priests. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware, alleges that the Rev. Michael L. Barnes abused the plaintiff while he was a minor at the St. Clare School in Essex. The suit names Barnes, the school and St. Clare Roman Catholic Church as co-defendants. Barnes, who left the priesthood in 1988 but was employed by the Archdiocese of Washington as lay director of adult faith formation at a Rockville church as recently as January, could not be located.
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Bathurst Sex Abuse Case: Too Sick for Court

A priest charged with indecently assaulting three students at a Bathurst high school has failed to appear in court due to illness. Father Hugh Edward Murray, 79, was arrested earlier this week at his Marsfield home and charged with five counts of indecent assault on a male. The charges relate to the assaults of three students at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, between 1966 and 1978. Murray is the ninth person to be charged by Strike Force Belle, which was set up to investigate allegations of sexual and indecent assault against students at two Bathurst schools between 1960 and 1993.
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Coach Admits to Getting Teen Pregnant; Where's The Baby?

CARO, MI -- Nobody is arguing the fact that Cory Fritz got a 14-year-old girl pregnant three years ago. But what happened to the baby remains a mystery. During a prepreliminary exam in Tuscola County District Court on Monday (today), Tuscola County Prosecutor Mark Reene said that Fritz, now 26, stated that he was “present during the birth of a baby and goes on to describe what happened at that time.” Fritz’s attorney, Kevin Rieman, called those allegations “preposterous,” and “flatly untrue.”
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Prosecutor: Mass. Girl Escapes Would-Be Rapist

HANOVER, Mass. -- A 6-year-old Massachusetts girl riding her bicycle was kidnapped by a neighbor who tried to rape her, but she managed to escape from his apartment despite being in leg shackles, a state prosecutor said. The girl was found Saturday afternoon as police searched the apartment complex in Hanover, about 20 miles southeast of Boston, where she and the suspect live, Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said. The girl's mother reported her missing at about 1:30 p.m., about a half-hour after she had left her home to ride her bike, authorities said. Officers found the girl outside during a door-to-door search, and she led them to the apartment where she was taken, Cruz said.
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ADULTERY: 'Lying, Cheating' S.C. Gov Says He Won't Resign

Adulterous low-life scum has no honor
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he's not quitting - even though he considered it - despite intense scrutiny and criticism over his admitted affair with a woman from Argentina. That woman, 41-year-old former television reporter Maria Belen Chapur, acknowledged Sunday that she had a relationship with Sanford and that the matter has been "very painful to me, my two children, my entire family and close friends." In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Sanford said thought about stepping down and away from the public eye to rebuild his life. That was until close spiritual and political associates urged him to instead fight to restore people's trust and finish out the 18 months left in his term. "Resigning would be the easiest thing to do," he said Sunday.
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Sanford's Argentine Mistress Speaks Out

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A 41-year-old Argentine woman has acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. In a statement sent to news network C5n of Buenos Aires, Maria Belen Chapur says she will not talk about her private life. But she says e-mail exchanges with Sanford that were widely published by U.S. media and elsewhere were obtained by someone who hacked her account. She denies the hacker was a friend of hers. Chapur says she suspects she knows who the hacker is but will not identify him, because she lacks proof and for legal reasons. She says Sunday’s 200-word statement will be her only comment on the matter.
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Argentine Woman Admits Relationship With S.C. Gov

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A 41-year-old Argentine former reporter acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, saying Sunday that widely published e-mail correspondence between the two was obtained from her account without permission. In a brief statement sent to news network C5n of Buenos Aires, Maria Belen Chapur said she will not talk about her private life, which has already been the focus of intense media scrutiny in the United States and Argentina.
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Cops: Duke Official Offered Adopted Son For Sex

DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University official has been arrested and charged with offering a 5-year-old boy for sex. Frank Mccorkle Lombard, the school's associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday, June 24 after an Internet sting, according to the FBI's Washington field office and the city's police department. Authorities said that Lombard tried to persuade a person — who he did not know was a police officer — to travel to North Carolina to have sex with a child.
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Sentencing for United Methodis Pastor Steve Richardson in Federal Porn Case

GREENVILLE, TX -- A former Royse City pastor is scheduled to be sentenced today to federal charges he possessed and trafficked in child pornography on his church’s computers. Steve Richardson pleaded guilty March 19 to two federal counts; one alleging transporting and shipping child pornography and one alleging the possession of child pornography before Magistrate Judge Irma C Ramirez. Richardson is facing a maximum sentence on the first count of between five and 20 years in prison; a fine of up to $250,000; a possible term of supervised release of from five years to life following any term of imprisonment and restitution.
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Teacher Deene Juncker Sentenced In Student Sex Case

SEATTLE -- A former Bellevue teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student has been sentenced to 20 months in prison. Deene Juncker was also ordered to have no contact with his victim. Juncker, 47, has been convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual misconduct for carrying on a sexual relationship with a student while working as a teacher at Forrest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart. Juncker resigned from the all-girls middle and high school of about 380 students last October after admitting to the affair to school officials. He was a drama instructor and yearbook adviser at the school.
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Judge Denies Change of Venue In Teacher's Sex Abuse Trial

A Fayette Circuit judge denied a motion Friday to move out of Fayette County the trial of a former Beaumont Middle School science teacher accused of raping and sodomizing two students in the late 1970s. An attorney for Jack Russell Hubbard submitted a change of venue motion to Fayette Circuit Judge James D. Ishmael Jr. at a status hearing last week. Attorney William Butler, who represents Hubbard, said coverage related to his client's case could make it difficult to assemble an impartial jury. But Ishmael said jury selection will reveal how much potential jurors know about Hubbard's case, and the court will proceed from there.
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Victim Testifies In Lake Park-Audubon Teacher Sex Trial

Testimony began Wednesday in the Becker County jury trial of a former Lake Park-Audubon High School teacher who is accused of having a sexual relationship with a female juvenile during the spring of 2005, when she was under 16 years of age. Jared Lee Sanborn, 26, of P.O. Box 122, Lake Park, is facing a felony count of third degree criminal sexual conduct. He allegedly had sexual intercourse with the girl 4-6 times over the course of a four-month period — when she was 15 and he was 21-22.
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Coach-Teacher Indicted In Sex Sting

WESTCHESTER -- Gregg Cavaluzzi, a former social studies teacher in the Pelham Middle School and former Pleasantville lacrosse coach, has been indicted by a federal grand jury of attempting to entice a minor to meet with him for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse. Cavaluzzi, 34, of Yorktown was arrested on May 31 in Elmsford Elmsford when he arrived for a meeting with an underaged girl that he had arranged on the Internet. However, the “15-year-old girl” was a detective with the Westchester County Police Internet Crimes Squad.
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Boulder City Teacher Indicted On Child Sex Charges

The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- A Clark County grand jury has indicted a longtime Boulder City soccer coach and middle school teacher on child molestation charges. Charles "Rick" Rogers was indicted this week on 76 counts, including lewdness with a minor, possessional of child pornography and sexual assault. The indictment was made public Friday. The indictment accuses 46-year-old Rogers of assaulting and molesting several young boys from 1999 to 2009.
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Deadline Looms For Sex-Abuse Cases

DELAWARE -- The two-year window of Delaware's 2007 Child Victim's Act is about to close, putting an end to a steady stream of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that dates to the 1950s and reaches to churches, schools and private homes. The 2007 law eliminated the civil statute of limitations in such cases and opened the two-year period during which cases previously barred by the time limit could be filed.
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Standing With The Devil Approving of Evil: Homosex Parade Marks 40 Years After NYC Riot

NEW YORK -- Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage. The annual march down Fifth Avenue commemorated the Stonewall rebellion of 40 years ago, when patrons at a gay bar resisted the police. The several days of disturbances that followed the uprising became one of the defining moments of the gay rights movement.
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Obama Honors Homosexual Rioters
By John Lofton / The American View Radio
"Grounds For Impeachment": Obama Honors Homosexual Rioters Who, Among Other Things, Tried to Set Fire to Murder Cops At "Stonewall Inn" In New York City In 1969. That's the disgusting topic on this "The American View" radio program which broadcasts live, daily, from 11 am to Noon (EST) and is now on the Liberty News Radio Network.

Adultery: Sanford Apologizes to Cabinet, Won't Say if He Will Quit

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Fighting pressure to resign, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford moved to regain control of his government Friday and gave no indication that he will step down, even as the chaos surrounding his week-long disappearance to Argentina and confession of an extramarital affair showed few signs of abating. The two-term Republican governor evoked Christian Scripture in his first public appearance since admitting the affair two days earlier, saying he is "on that larger voyage that we're all on in life" and that he is merely "trying to survive the day."
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S.C. 1st Lady Told Gov to Stop Affair

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. -- When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared, his wife hoped he was really hiking on the Appalachian Trail as his staff had claimed. Like the rest of America, she was stunned to find out he had dared to go to Argentina to see his mistress, a trip she told him not to take. "He was told in no uncertain terms not to see her," Jenny Sanford said in a strong, steady voice as she sat in her oceanfront living room Friday. "I was hoping he was on the Appalachian Trail. But I was not worried about his safety. I was hoping he was doing some real soul searching somewhere and devastated to find out it was Argentina. It's tragic."
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S.C. Governor's Argentina Trip Raises Questions

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The details of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's secretive trips to visit his lover in South America aren't just headline fodder or political kryptonite. They're also being scrutinized by law enforcement officials at the request of some lawmakers and watchdog groups who fear taxpayer money could have been misused on his affair. So far, no criminal investigation has been opened.
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S.C. Dems Calls For Sanford Probe

United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The head of the South Carolina Democratic Party Saturday called on state lawmakers to conduct a bipartisan investigation of Gov. Mark Sanford. Carol Fowler issued a statement saying Sanford deceived South Carolinians about his travels and his extramarital affair with an Argentine woman and the only way "to feel confident they are being told the truth is for the General Assembly to pursue every recourse under the law to get at that truth," CNN reported.
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Questions Swirl Over Legality Of S.C. Gov's Tryst
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits he used bad judgment when he secretly visited his mistress during a state-funded trip to Argentina last year. But did he break the law? As calls mounted for a criminal probe of the trade mission, a spokeswoman for the state's law enforcement division said it doesn't appear Sanford did anything illegal. Spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said the information provided so far indicates Sanford met his mistress on private time during a legitimate business trip.

Youth Pastor Sentenced to 10 Years for Having Sex With Child

ELKHORN, WI -- A former youth pastor was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison on charges of sexually assaulting a child in the mid-1970s. Russell J. Lesser, 64, of Bryson City, N.C., pleaded guilty April 14 to a felony charge of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 16. Two others charges were dismissed but read in. During his sentencing Thursday, Lesser asked for the court’s mercy and apologized to victim Laurie Asplund.
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Westlake Priest Accused of Exposing Himself While Driving

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- A local priest is in legal trouble after he's accused of exposing himself while driving on a local highway. Rev. Donald Snyder, 63, is charged with one count of indecent exposure. Rev. Snyder is a priest at St. Ladislas Church in Westlake. According to a Westlake police report, a truck driver called 911 after seeing Snyder exposing himself while driving next to him on Interstate 90 in Rocky River.
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Some Sex Charges Dismissed Against Church Worker

TROY, OH -- A charge of rape and four counts of gross sexual imposition against a youth leader and director of children’s church at Vandalia Baptist Temple were dismissed Thursday, June 25, but Shawn P. Rickert remains jailed on four additional gross sexual imposition charges. Refiling of the charges dismissed against Rickert, 38, who lives near Tipp City, will be sought through a Miami County grand jury, sheriff’s Detective Dave Norman said. The charges were dismissed in county Municipal Court because the alleged victim, now age 10, was not available at court Thursday to testify regarding specific allegations.
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Religion Teacher Faces New Sexual Abuse Allegations in Minnesota

SAN JOSE, CA -- A former religion teacher at De La Salle High School in Concord who was accused of sexually abusing a student on a ski trip to Lake Tahoe in 1982, resulting in a seven-figure payout, is the subject of a flurry of new lawsuits in Minnesota alleging similar crimes before he came to California. Among at least three lawsuits involving Brother Charles Anthony "Raimond" Rose are two alleging fraud — a recent legal strategy used by victims of childhood sexual abuse to overcome lapsed statutes of limitations on personal injury claims. The latest, filed Thursday, accuses the Christian Brothers order in Minnesota and a St. Paul high school with knowing Rose had a history of sexual abuse when, the lawsuit claims, he sexually abused a teen boy at a retreat house in 1973 or 1974.
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Baltimore Area Man Sues Archdiocese, Molestation by Priest

BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore County man in his 40s is suing the Archdiocese of Baltimore for an undisclosed amount of money, alleging negligence by the Roman Catholic Church after what he claims were years of sexual molestation by one of its priests. The lawsuit, filed in Delaware, alleges that Rev. Michael L. Barnes, a co-defendant in the suit, abused the plaintiff while he was a minor at the St. Clare School in the 700 block of Myrth Ave. in Essex. The school and St. Clare Roman Catholic Church are also co-defendants in the case. Court papers say the church was aware of Barnes' history, which included several other molestation claims.
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Bill to Raise Age of Sex Abuse Victims Moves Through Legislature

SALEM, Ore. -- A bill that would raise the age of sex abuse victims in Oregon from 24 to 40 will likely become law. The future of House Bill 2827 appeared bleak when we wrote about it May 28th 2009. Many of the cases originate from churches in Oregon and experts like Portland Attorney Kelly Clark, say it often takes several decades for a person to comprehend the magnitude of their experience and come forward.
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United Church of Christ `Leaders' Asked to Support Diversity Education

ALAMEDA -- Local leaders of the United Church of Christ are calling on their fellow pastors and ministers to support teaching diversity and multicultural education in public schools in response to the issue coming under fire when it was proposed here and in Castro Valley. The local representatives are asking 900 delegates from across the country who are now attending the church's General Synod in Grand Rapids, Mich., to approve a resolution which backs diversity lessons, saying they reflect Jesus' command for people to love their neighbors.
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Ireland Grants 'Rights' to Homosex 'Partnerships'

Ireland recognised the legal rights of homosexuals for the first time in a 'civil partnership' bill that gave sex offenders and predators in long-term relationships many of the statutory rights of married couples. But it stopped short of recognising civil marriage. There are strong rights conferred to marriage under the constitution of the traditionally Catholic country, which was amended to lift a ban on divorce in 1995.
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Gov. Sanford's Wife Not Standing By Her Man

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Jenny Sanford did not stand by her man. To those accustomed to watching betrayed first ladies smile stiffly through their husbands' public confessions, the absence of Gov. Mark Sanford's wife at the soul-baring news conference where he admitted to an affair with a woman in Argentina was striking. Instead, she issued a tough-minded statement saying she had thrown her cheating husband out and told him to stop speaking to her while she tries to deal with his infidelity.
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Sanford Sex Scandal Grows: Did Governor Use Tax Money to Finance Affair?

Facing questions over whether he used taxpayer funds to pay for trips to Argentina to see the woman with whom he admitted having an extramarital affair, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday that he would repay the state for a 2008 business trip to Buenos Aires. The dates of that taxpayer-funded trip matched dates on steamy e-mails released Wednesday between the governor and the woman, named Maria, with whom he had an affair. It appears that the two were sexually intimate during the visit.
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Youth Minister Sentenced for 1970s Sexual Relationship With Child

A former youth pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday on charges of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 16 in the mid-1970s. Russell J. Lesser, 64, of Bryson City, N.C., had pleaded guilty April 14 to a felony charge of sexual intercourse with a child younger than 16. Two others charges were dismissed but read in. The former pastor began his advances during a "trust" game, victim Laurie Asplund said, but then sexually assaulted her more than 40 times from summer 1974 to spring 1976. She was 14 to 16 years old.
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Second Suit Alleges Past Sexual Abuse at Dunrovin

MINNESOTA -- A civil suit filed in Ramsey County District Court this morning accuses a Catholic brother of sexually abusing a then-teenaged boy in the early 1970s while the two were staying at Dunrovin Christian Brothers Retreat Center in Marine on St. Croix. The suit seeks unspecified damages from The Christian Brothers order and Cretin-Derham Hall High School, which the plaintiff's attorneys say facilitated the abuse by allowing an accused pedophile to continue to work with children.
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Philly Priests Face Sex-Abuse Charges

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Two former Archdiocese of Philadelphia students filed separate suits this month alleging sexual abuse by diocesan priests, while a third suit was filed last week against a current diocesan priest. Plaintiffs in the first two suits allege that officials with the archdiocese had knowledge of the abuse and did not intervene. Richard Green, 31, of Pittsgrove Township, N.J., filed suit last week in Delaware Superior Court, alleging that the late Rev. John M. McDevitt Jr. sexually abused him during his freshman year at Father Judge High School in Northeast Philadelphia.
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Hindu Leader Awaiting Molestation Trial

SAN MARCOS, TX -- A state appeals court rejected Hindu leader Prakashanand Saraswati’s request to return to the Hays County headquarters of his spiritual movement while awaiting trial on indecency with a child charges. The international leader of the JKP-Barsana Dham sect of Hinduism, the 80-year-old Saraswati was arrested in April 2008 for allegedly touching the breasts of then-minors between 1993 and 1996. He was released on $500,000 bonds on the condition that he not leave the country and not come within 200 yards of the Barsana Dham Center on Farm-to-Market Road 1826 near Driftwood, a 200-acre replica of an Indian holy district and the movement’s North American seat. He has been living in a house nearby, court records show.
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Republicans Vow to Restore Homosex 'Marriage' in California

LOS ANGELES -- Log Cabin Republicans and Republicans Against Prop 8 issue the following statements: Statement of Scott Schmidt, Campaign Manager, Republicans Against 8. “It is a sad day for California when the Supreme Court gives up its role as the ultimate protector of Constitutional Rights for all Californians. By endorsing the legal theory that basic Constitutional Rights are subject to a plurality of the electorate, the Court has marginalized the Constitution and has created a climate of chaos of fear each time Californians go to the ballot box.”
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Former Bush Solicitor General Files Suit Claiming Homosex 'Marriage' is Constitutional Right

Attorney David Boies and former Bush administration Solicitor General Theodore Olson have filed a lawsuit in California to overturn voter-approved Proposition 8, which says only male-female marriages are valid in the state, declared unconstitutional so that homosexuals can marry. Olson and Boies say that Prop. 8 violates the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and that homosexuals have a constitutional right to marry.
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LAWLESSNESS: Schwarzenegger Decides Against Defending The Law in Federal Court

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declined to defend the constitutionality of Proposition 8, telling a San Francisco judge that the legality of the marriage law is for the courts to decide. The governor's decision to remain neutral in a federal challenge to Proposition 8 means no statewide official will be defending the measure in federal court. Proposition 8 resurrected a ban on same-sex marriage, receiving 52% of the vote in the November election. The California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 last month that the measure did not violate the state constitution.
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US Preacher Faces Pornography Charges in Kenya

Kenyan police were Thursday investigating accusations that an American preacher has been moonlighting as a trafficker of pornographic images. 50-year-old Thomas Manton, of the Dominion International church, was Wednesday denied bail after being arrested for allegedly producing pornography with the intention to distribute it. A lawyer for Manton - who describes himself as "God's Voice to the Nations" on his website - told the Daily Nation that the allegations were part of a scheme to extort money from his client. Manton is the second foreign religious figure to face sex accusations in recent weeks.
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Kenyan police has arrested an American preacher who faces charges of trafficking pornographic material, police said on Wednesday. Thomas Manton IV, a self-styled prophet, was detained late on Tuesday following a complaint by a woman who said he posted pornographic pictures of her on a website. "He will be charged for trafficking pornographic material and being in Kenya illegally," a police officer said on condition of anonymity.

Pastor Charged With Sex Crimes Was Dismissed from 2 Lincoln Churches

LINCOLN, NE -- The pastor charged last week with a series of sex crimes in Iowa has a troubled history in Lincoln — including an allegation he sexually abused a teenager. The Rev. Efrain Umaña was arrested June 11 at his home at 1906 Hartley St. in Lincoln for extradition to Iowa. Council Bluffs police allege Umaña, 53, forced a 10- or 11-year-old girl to have sex with him in Templo Monte Horeb church there in 2003.
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LINCOLN, Nebraska -- Efrain Umaña Sr., a pastor who served congregations in Council Bluffs and Lincoln, will plead not guilty to sex abuse charges, his attorney said Wednesday. Umaña, 53, was charged earlier this month in Pottawattamie County with having sex with a 10- or 11-year-old girl parishioner in 2003, forcing an adult woman parishioner to have sex with him in 2007 and assaulting two other women with the intent to commit sexual abuse in 2008. He is accused of assaulting them while serving as pastor at Templo Monte Horeb in Council Bluffs, which he left about nine months ago amid allegations of misconduct.

ADULTERY: S.C. Governor Admits Affair, Apologizes But Does Not Resign

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Gov. Mark Sanford, a rising star among conservative Republicans, admitted Wednesday to an affair with a woman in Argentina, where he spent last week after he disappeared from public view and his wife said she didn't know where he was. "I've let down a lot of people," said Sanford, who resigned as chairman of the Republican Governors Association but wouldn't say whether he'll quit as governor. "What I did was wrong. Period."
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Missing S.C. Governor In Argentina With Mistress
In what may seem like a cheap midday soap opera, the Republican governor whose mysterious disappearance was attributed to an Appalachian Trail hike turned out to be in South America with his mistress. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, chair of the Republican Governor’s Association, evidently didn’t tell his staff or his wife that he was taking a few days to visit his mistress in Argentina. During the Latin American rendezvous the governor was incommunicado for several days during which staff and state officials said they had not heard from him and could not reach him.

Southern Baptists honor Obama

By Peter Smith / Louisville Courier-Journal
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday honoring the breakthrough of Obama's election as the nation's first African-American president and hailing his dedication to his wife and children. Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt said on Tuesday. "We wanted to give our prayer and support to the new administration," he said, citing biblical passages that the "king's heart is in the Lord's hands.
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Homosex Trial Begins for Psychiatrist Accused of Molesting Boys

REDWOOD CITY — The trial for a once-prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist accused of molesting several young patients in the 1990s began Tuesday. William Ayres, 77, sat quietly throughout statements by prosecutor Melissa McKowan, who called Ayres a pedophile, and Ayres’ attorney, Doron Weinberg, who argued his client did not act inappropriately. Ayres, a former president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is charged with 10 counts of lewd and lascivious conduct on a child under 14 for allegedly molesting six boys between 9 and 13 years old from 1988 to 1996. He was arrested in April 2007 and has been free on $750,000 bail.
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Psychiatrist Homosex Molestation Trial Begins
Medical exams administered by a prominent San Mateo child psychiatrist now accused of molesting six former patients were a “ruse designed by a pedophile” to inappropriately touch the young boys in his care, a prosecutor told jurors yesterday in the long-awaited trial of Dr. William Hamilton Ayres. The six alleged victims, now men, and four others whose cases fall outside the statute of limitations do not know each other but will tell jurors about treatment that included nude exams, touching of the genitals and a lack of privacy safeguards like a drape or screen behind which to change, prosecutors Melissa McKowan told jurors during opening statements.

Mass. Swim Coach Faces Child Porn Charge

TAUNTON, Mass. -- A North Attleborough man who coached swimming at an area high school as well as a YMCA and private swim club has been arraigned on possession of child pornography charges. Timothy Kelly was released on $75,000 bail after a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf Tuesday in Taunton District Court. Prosecutors allege the 38-year-old Kelly had sexually explicit images of children on his computer as well as on DVDs in his apartment.
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NJ Girl, 14, Gets Only Probation For Posting Nude Pics

TRENTON, N.J. -- A 14-year-old New Jersey girl who posted nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com will have child pornography counts dropped. The Passaic County Prosecutor's Office says the girl must undergo at least six months of counseling and probation and must stay out of trouble. If she does, all charges will be dropped. The Clifton teen was initially arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.
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Survey: 1 In 5 Teens 'Sext' Despite Risks

WASHINGTON -- A new survey on kids in cyberspace finds that one in five teens have "sexted" — sent or received sexually suggestive, nude or nearly nude photos through cellphone text messages or e-mail. Most teens who sexted sent the photos to girlfriends or boyfriends, but 11% sent them to strangers, according to the study made public today by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Cox Communications. Of teens who sext, 80% are under 18, the survey found.
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Pedophile Worked As Teacher's Aide

Former teacher's assistant sought women online to role-play as preteen girls. A former Edmonton school teacher's assistant and volunteer with Kids Kottage, who is facing jail on child pornography charges, is a pedophile and a sex addict. Details emerged yesterday at a provincial court sentencing hearing for Todd William Tenetiuk, a 41-year-old city man who had been working as a teacher's assistant and cook at L.Y. Cairns junior high school.
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Homosexual Child Killer's Sentence Extended

South Australian authorities remain determined to keep the state's most notorious murderer, Bevan Spencer von Einem, behind bars. The convicted killer was ordered to serve another three-month jail term today, after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography in prison. Von Einem, 63, admitted possessing three fictional child porn stories that were found in a sealed envelope under his pillow during a search of his jail cell in 2005. One depicted sexual acts between two boys aged 13 and 16, a second sexual acts between boys aged 12 and 16 and the third sexual acts involving an 11-year-old boy and a man.
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Obama Invites Homos to The White House

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Obama to Commemorate Sodomite Riot!
As advocates for gays and lesbians intensify their criticism of the White House, President Obama has invited some of their leaders to an East Room reception next Monday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, the 1969 Greenwich Village demonstrations that gave birth to the modern gay rights movement. The White House has not publicized the reception, and officials did not respond to e-mail requests for comment. But gay leaders from here and around the country said they had received either telephone calls from the White House or written invitations to the event, and were told Mr. Obama is expected to speak.
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Obama Rewriting Rules on 'Transgender Rights'

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.
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It's Ok To Say... 'That's So Gay'

Millions of young people say, "That's so gay" to denote alien, different or unhealthy. To me, this is a hopeful sign that civilization may yet survive. For Rockefeller-Rothschild social engineers, however, it's a nightmare. These youths did not imbibe the propaganda that gay and straight are the same, i.e. "lifestyle preferences" like cable or satellite. So these Cabalist bankers have launched an expensive "public service" TV campaign to teach kids that obeying their healthy instincts is "homophobic."
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Abomination 'Defectors' Approve Constitution for New Church

BEDFORD, Texas -- Several hundred former Episcopalians, meeting in a school gym near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, ratified a constitution Monday for the fledgling Anglican Church in North America as a direct challenge to the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada. About 800 people jumped to their feet and sang the Doxology, a hymn of praise, after the ACNA's new leader, Archbishop-designate Robert Duncan, told the group that it had "done the work." "The Anglican Province of North America has been constituted," he said.
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Report: 60,000 Inmates Sexually Abused Every Year

A federal commission on prison rape has concluded that the risk of being attacked depends greatly on the type of prisoner, and where the inmate is locked up. More than 60,000 inmates are sexually abused every year, according to a report being made public Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. The eight-member panel was formed under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act.
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Missionary Kids Abused Sexually

By Julia Duin
I was at a book-signing event in Seattle a few months ago when I met Marilyn Christman, who asked me to look into the sexual abuse of Protestant missionary kids (MKs). I ended up viewing "All God's Children: The Ultimate Sacrifice," a documentary by New York filmmakers Scott Solary and Luci Westphal. They were haunted by the stories of more than 80 children whose days at a Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) boarding school in Mamou, Guinea, in West Africa sound like something out of Abu Ghraib: savage beatings, sexual abuse, rape and sadistic punishments.
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TBN Personality Turns Wine into a Double DUI

ORANGE COUNTY, CA -- It's telling about the sad state of religion reporting in Orange County, one of the founts of American Christianity, that no one has yet to report this: a major Trinity Broadcasting Company personality has pleaded guilty to two felony DUIs that put a 70-year-old man in the hospital with serious injuries. On April 26, around 10 p.m., one Stephen Eugene Galiher was speeding at least over 85 miles per hour in his company-owned BMW on the 73 Freeway near the 55 Freeway interchange when he smashed into a car, causing it to overturn twice. Galiher--the head pastor at Trinity Music City Church, the main place of worship at TBN's Christian music theme park in Hendersonville, Tennessee--was in town after appearing four days earlier on Behind the Scenes, a show where TBN head Paul Crouch checks in with his many ministers.
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Bridgeport Diocese Tries Again to Stop Document Release

CONNECTICUT -- In a bid to prevent public disclosure of more than 1,200 pages of sealed court filings from 23 priest sex abuse cases that were settled in 2001, the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese is seeking new arguments before a full seven-member Supreme Court. On June 2, in a 4 to 1 decision, the high court adopted a broad definition of “judicial” court filings that the public is allowed to see because the documents form the basis of court rulings. In making the ruling, the majority ordered the release of nearly all of the priest sex abuse files.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has come a long way from the dark days when complaints about priests who sexually abused boys were ignored and the priests shuttled to new assignments where they remained in contact with children. Bridgeport was part of a plague of sexual predation that became an international church scandal. In 2001 and 2003, the Bridgeport Diocese reached multimillion dollar settlements of lawsuits in which there were more than 50 claims of sexual abuse by its priests. At the time of the 2003 settlement, a spokesman for the diocese said the settlement was “all about transparency, ... about healing, about doing the right thing, about closure.”

Catholic Church Accused of Shuttling Child-Predator Priest

LOS ANGELES -- The Catholic Church sent a child-molesting priest to Mexico instead of defrocking him, and has spent "many years ... engaging in the international trafficking of known child molesting priests," shuttling them between California and Latin America, a man claims in Superior Court. The John Doe plaintiff claims that Father Nicholas Aguilar Rivera molested "numerous children" as a priest in Mexico in 1986. When parents and police confronted him, Cardinal Noriberto Rivera Carrera helped Rivers escape from Mexico by transferring him to a Los Angeles church, according to the complaint.
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Vote Unlikely on Sex Abuse Bill Catholic Church Opposes

NEW YORK -- As the state Assembly wrapped up its regular session Tuesday, it appeared unlikely that controversial child sex abuse bill would be voted on, advocates and officials said. The bill, sponsored by Assemb. Margaret Markey (D- Maspeth) and opposed by the Catholic Church, would drop the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases for victims 53 years and younger. Previously her bill included no age limit. She also recently amended it to explicitly include public as well as private institutions.
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Fort Worth Diocese Priest Denies Homosex Allegations from 1981

FORT WORTH, TX -- The Rev. Rudolf Renteria denies allegations that he sexually abused an Arlington altar boy in the 1980s, according to recently filed court documents. A California man in his 40s sued Renteria and the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese in March. The man accused the diocese of covering up the priest's actions. The diocese denies those allegations and argues in court documents that the statute of limitation bars "all or a portion of plaintiff's claims." The man's attorney, Tahira Khan Merritt of Dallas, could not be reached for comment.
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Judge Upholds Part of Lawsuit Against Catholic Church

CHARLOTTE, NC -- A sex abuse victims' group on Monday applauded a judge's order to allow some claims in a civil suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte to move forward in court. The 2008 suit alleges that diocesan officials covered up the sex crimes of the Rev. Robert Yurgel, who pleaded guilty to a sex offense in February. The Charlotte Diocese denies that officials were aware of abuse allegations until Yurgel's arrest in April 2008, and sought a dismissal of the case filed by Yurgel's victim.
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Vatican Told Bishops To Cover Up Sex Abuse

IRELAND -- Poster's Note: Please keep these words in mind when you read the following archived article from 2003: 'Lawyers point to a letter the Vatican sent to bishops in May 2001 clearly stating the 1962 instruction was in force until then. The letter is signed by Cardinal Ratzinger...' In case you have forgotten, Ratzinger is now the Pope. The time span in this article covers at least 5 popes, including Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II and the current man holding the title, Benedict XVI [a.k.a Ratzinger]
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Christian Brother Committed Child-Sex Offences at St Vincent's Boys' Orphanage

In the Melbourne County Court on 15 May 2009, a jury found a Catholic religious brother guilty of committing sexual offences against a 12-year-old boy in a Melbourne orphanage. Brother John Francis Coswello (aged 70 at the time of the trial) has been a member of the Victoria-Tasmania province of the Christian Brothers for more than 50 years. On 22 June 2009 Judge Ross Howie sentenced Coswello to two years and ten months jail, with a minimum of 15 months to be spent behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.
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Accused Craigslist Killer Pleads Not Guilty

A former medical student pleaded not guilty to charges related to the shooting death of Julissa Brisman, 25, in a Boston hotel on April 10. Philip Markoff answered "not guilty" to charges of murder, kidnapping, armed robbery and weapons violations. Investigators say Markoff lured Brisman to the hotel through an online classified advertisement on Craigslist.
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CBS/New York Times Poll: Support for Homosex Marriage Falls, but Most Favor Legal Recognition for Sex Offender 'Couples'

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As gay marriage spreads in the Northeast and the U.S. Census Bureau prepares to begin counting married gay Americans, the latest CBS/New York Times poll finds that just a third of Americans support marriage for same-sex couples. That's down from a high of 42 percent in April. The dip in support most likely represents a reaction to the flurry of news stories about the handful of states—Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont—that have legalized gay marriage in the past three months. This could vindicate the Obama administration for its fears of backlash should it make a major move on gay rights by taking steps to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act or the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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Church of England Give Fathers Beer

A senior bishop has backed the move, which is part of a Church of England initiative to put a Christian emphasis on the annual celebration of fatherhood. Concerns over the lack of men attending services year-round (because who in their right mind wants to go to a faggot infested church) has led clergy to offer a range of incentives today, including free beer, bacon rolls and chocolate bars. It is the first time that the Church has attempted to treat Fathers' Day in the same way as Mothering Sunday, which has traditionally formed part of its calendar.
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Lawmakers Urge Obama to 'Sodomize the Military'

Dozens of lawmakers urged President Obama in a letter Monday to suspend the policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and start working with Congress to repeal it. The letter, written by Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., and signed by 76 members of Congress, comes as the president faces pressure from sex offenders to do more to address their concerns. The lawmakers urged Obama to direct the Armed Services not to initiate any investigation into the sexual orientation of service members and to disregard third-party accusations.
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Michelle Obama Kicks Off 'United We Serve' Campaign in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- First lady Michelle Obama kicked off a summer of community service Monday by helping fix up a school playground, part of a national effort that saw administration officials traveling all over the country to promote the value of volunteering. The initiative, known as United We Serve, was announced by President Obama in a video message last week. The president is urging people to help in the nation's economic recovery by volunteering at schools and hospitals and pitching in on community needs ranging from tutoring to park cleanup.
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