N E W S - August, 1999

Ryan Green, 15, is filing a law suit against the Mississippi school board for declaring the Star of David a "gang symbol" and banning it from the school grounds. Mr. Green received the pin from his grandmother. His father is Jewish, his mother is a Christian. When Mr. Green wore the pin to school a teacher told him to pin it inside his shirt "for his own good." Later the school board banned it entirely.

The ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center have expressed an interest in the case. The ACLJ remains strangely silent.

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Pastor Joyce Perdue, of Faith Outreach ministry in Woodbine, Maryland was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $65,000 back pay to the Estonian children she defrauded. Perdue and two associates, also charged, smuggled Estonian children into the US, forcing them to work 15-hour days cleaning roach-infested apartments, the profits of which went to support the pastors' lavish lifestyles. The children were promised a Christian education.

Pastor Perdue told the court, "I never remember abusing them."

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Pastor Danny Bruce Moody, of Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia has been released on $5000 bail, charged with being a peeping Tom. Pastor Moody, 52, hung out in the airport concourse videotaping under womens' skirts as they rode up the escalators. One mother confronted the pastor who claimed he wasn't doing anything. The mother called the cops and Moody was arrested. The videotape contained shots of several other women.

SOURCE: APB Online

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Pastor Kenneth D. Spaulding, 47, unassociated with any church, has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for molesting four young girls. Pastor Spaulding held services for young children in his home, including "sleepovers."

SOURCE: APB Online

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Pastor Anthony Rousonelos, 42, of Faith Assembly of God parish in St. Petersburg, Florida was killed by his wife Carrie after he admitted to having an affair with a member of his congregation. Mrs. Rousonelos, in charge of the church's day care program, plunged a knife into her husband's groin, severing a major artery killing him within minutes.

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Rev. Mario Beato-Prieto, 35, a Catholic priest who runs a parochial school in the Philippines, is under church arrest, charged with foreign transport of false documents. Father Beato-Prieto, who had taken a vow of poverty, was caught attempting to smuggle 2.4 billion in fake Treasury notes into the country. Prosecutors in NY are yet unclear what penalty the bald, skinny priest faces if convicted.

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An unidentified Father, 33, head of a boarding school at Prambachkirchen confessed to sexually molesting a dozen preteen boys in his care. He also approached young boys in Internet chat rooms and would then attempt to telephone them. The Father has also been charged in connection with an Internet child pornography ring which has netted more than 100,000 pornographic photographs.

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Ian Wilkinson, a basketball coach at Northwest Christian Academy has been charged with sexual battery for having sex with a 15-year-old student twice - once at the school, and once at his home.

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Choir director, Kevin Cane, 37, is on the lam after being accused of luring five teen-aged boys to his apartment where he then molested them.

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A teenaged boy drowned during a baptism in the Houston river yesterday. The boy slipped away from the minister while he was under. Authorities are examining if the collapse of a nearby walkway may have contributed to the event.

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