Christian School Coach gets four years, four months in prison
for child sexual abuse
Giuseppe Ricapito, Union Democrat
Nov 17, 2020
Former Mother Lode Christian School coach Mona McGrady received the maximum sentence of four years and four months in state prison on Tuesday in Tuolumne County Superior Court after being convicted by a jury on three child sex crimes against a former student-athlete who was molested in the 1990s.
"It's finished. It's over. We did this as a community, not as a mob," said the confidential victim in the case known as Jane Doe 1. "I hope that in the depths of her soul, someday she can come to terms with what she's done. My family and my kids are stronger because of this."
McGrady sat beside Clint Parish, her Sonora-based attorney, for the entire two-hour hearing with a blue surgical mask, a black-and-white striped Tuolumne County jail uniform, and her hands shackled in front of her.
The sexual penetration act was at a hotel in Modesto while the victim was under the age of 18.
McGrady made no public comments to the court or to the public during the sentencing. Throughout her six-week trial when she was called as a defense witness and during a probation interview subsequent to her conviction, McGrady has denied any sexual relationship with Jane Doe 1 and another confidential victim, Jane Doe 2, who testified in the trial but whose allegations fell outside the statute of limitations.
"The wreckage that Mrs. McGrady left in her wake as she moved on in her life kept her victims from living their lives," said Tuolumne County Superior Court Judge Kevin Seibert. "The jury did not believe you. I do not believe you."
Seibert implored McGrady to one day admit her crimes, apologize to the victims with remorse and seek their forgiveness. "You can still give them the acknowledgment these crimes happened, that these terrible things happened," Seibert said. "These things can go a long way to helping them heal and helping you heal."
The hearing also heard victim impact statements from Jane Doe 1, her husband, her 20-year-old son, her 17-year-old daughter and her father.
“Without the pain and suffering in my mom and I's relationship, we could not be as close as we are today: best friends," said Jane Doe 1's daughter.
McGrady will have to register as a sexual offender following her release from prison.
Parish said he believed there was an "appealable issue" in the case, but he had not discussed with McGrady whether an appeal would be filed at this time.
"We're disappointed the judge reached the sentence he did,” Parish said. “We are personally appreciative to the judge and his professionalism for thinking it through and the dedication to his ruling. That's really what we expect from a judge of his caliber.”
You compliment the judge but you are thinking of appealing anyway? Weird!
Asbury Park, NJ chaplain charged with attempted child sexual luring
Joshua Chung
Asbury Park Press
FREEHOLD – A chaplain from Asbury Park has been charged with attempting to lure a child into his home and engage in sexual activities, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher G. Gramiccioni said in a prepared statement.
He was arrested Friday. City police were able to obtain the letter from the child and quickly apprehended the suspect, authorities said.
Authorities could not provide additional information on where Finol-Carrillo served as a chaplain or any additional information about his history.
Finol-Carrillo is being held in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, pending a detention hearing on Nov. 12 before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon.
If convicted on the luring charge, Finol-Carrillo faces up to 10 years in prison and up to five years in prison if he is convicted on the endangering the welfare of a child charge.
Additionally, he would also be subject to lifetime parole supervision and the provisions of Megan's Law, requiring him to register his whereabouts with authorities and appear on the state's sex offender registry, according to Gramiccioni.
Former NH church employee busted third time for sex abuse images
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Manchesterinklink
NASHUA, NH – A Massachusetts man convicted for possessing child sex abuse images, and waiting to be sentenced on a second charge was arrested a third time in Nashua for allegedly sharing more child sex abuse images.
Russell Graham, 40, was even released from jail earlier this year while the second case was pending over concerns he could get sick from COVID-19, according to court records.
Graham is facing new charges in the United States District Court in Concord after he allegedly shared child sex abuse images and videos over the internet with an undercover officer working for the Nashua Police Department, according to court records.
Graham was first arrested in 2017 when he was employed at the First United Baptist Church in Lowell. After his conviction he was arrested again in 2019 on charges of again sharing child sex abuse images, according to court records. Since he was still on probation for the 2017 conviction, he was placed in custody to await trial.
Earlier this year he was released from jail because of his “health issues,” and was permitted to use a GPS ankle bracelet, according to court records.
In May, a Nashua detective investigating a suspicious website began an online relationship with Graham, where Graham sent his the child sex abuse images. Eventually, Graham asked the detective to help him find a job, according to court records.
Greenville, SC Pastor Charged With Child Sex Crimes
Published November 27, 2020
By Mandy Matney, Fits News
A Greenville, South Carolina pastor accused of sexually assaulting multiple children was charged with child sex crimes.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Office arrested Moises Norberto Guerrero on charges of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and second-degree assault and battery.
He was a pastor at Iglesia Pentecostal Jehovah Jireh Church, which is located at 1200 Easley Bridge Road in Greenville.
The alleged crimes occurred between 2008 and 2019, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.
Good grief! 11 years and no-one knew about it?
On Oct.19, someone contacted the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office and told investigators Norberto-Guerrero “inappropriately touched” a 7-year-old who attended his church.
As police investigated the incident, another victim came forward on Nov. 16 and said Norberto-Guerrero inappropriately touched him multiple times, according to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.
On November 16, the Board of Directors of Iglesia Pentecostal Jehova Jireh also filed paperwork to evict Norberto-Guerrero from the church’s property, according to online court records.
“Although the defendant remains in the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office on the above charges, investigators are concerned there might be additional victims who have experienced similar interactions,” the news release said.
Anyone with information should contact the sheriff’s office at (864) 271-5210 or Crime Stoppers of Greenville at 23-CRIME.
The day after Noberto-Guerrero was arrested, another Greenville County, South Carolina man was arrested on 10 charges related to sexual exploitation of a minor.
Arthur Leonard Glen IV, of Mauldin, South Carolina is accused of distributing and duplicating files of child sexual abuse material, according to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office.
He faces up to 10 years in prison for each count of second-degree child exploitation.
Hammond, Ill Baptist leader repeatedly raped girls 4 decades ago,
lawsuit alleges
Bob Kasarda, NWI Times
Dec 3, 2020
The main entrance to First Baptist Church is seen in Hammond. Kale Wilk, The Times
CHICAGO — A former Hammond resident claims in a federal lawsuit she was repeatedly raped as a young student more than four decades ago by the son of the then-pastor and president of the First Baptist Church of Hammond and Hyles-Anderson College.
Nanette Miles, who agreed to be named publicly for this article, said then-youth director David Hyles, who was son of then-Pastor Jack Hyles, called her into his office in September 1976 when she was 13. She alleges in the lawsuit she was given a drink and then blacked out.
She claims she woke up on the office floor while being raped by David Hyles.
Following the alleged attack, she was instructed to leave through the back door so she would not be seen by a secretary, the lawsuit claims. David Hyles said he would want to see her again, according to the lawsuit.
She was raped again by David Hyles in his office a week later, and he continued to rape her weekly "unless he was out of town on church business," the lawsuit alleges. The sexual abuse allegedly continued for five years on church and college property.
"Defendants stole something innocent, sensitive and sacred from every minor they abused," according to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Illinois by the Dallas, Texas, law firm of Forester Haynie.
No one was immediately available at the church Thursday afternoon for comment.
Miles' attorney, Ashley Pileika, said in a prepared release, "Nanette is seeking justice against David Hyles for his reprehensible behavior for herself and many others. She is friends with at least two other women who were raped by David Hyles and struggle with severe health complications today. Nanette is courageously stepping forward to be their voice as well."
History of abuse allegations, convictions
The lawsuit is just the latest in a history of civil and criminal accusations of sexual abuse of underage girls by officials at the church, which was founded in 1887.
Joy Ryder, who now runs a support group for sex abuse victims, filed her own federal lawsuit earlier this year claiming David Hyles repeatedly raped her as a teenage girl in the late 1970s.
A Lake County jury convicted A.V. Ballenger, a deacon at the church, almost three decades ago of fondling a 7-year-old girl in the summer of 1991 in her Sunday school class.
Jack Schaap, a son-in-law of the late Jack Hyles, was pastor of the church and a married man with two children when he pleaded guilty in 2012 to transporting a teen female student of the church's high school to Illinois and Michigan for sexual encounters. Schaap also had sex with the underage victim in his church office earlier that year, according to court filings.
The latest case
In the latest class action suit, David Hyles is accused of beginning to pursue Miles when she was a 12-year-old student at the school after her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
"D. Hyles began calling plaintiff into his private office at the Youth Center for counseling," the suit states. He would make "inappropriate comments about her body, stating he wanted to see her in a swimsuit," the suit alleges.
David Hyles also is accused of touching Miles inappropriately and often trying to isolate her by calling her into his office.
Miles' mother found a letter from David Hyles, written to her 13-year-old daughter "containing sexually explicit and vulgar language about what he wanted to do to plaintiff," the suit states.
When the letter was presented to Jack Hyles, senior pastor at the time, "he tore up the letter, threw it away and told plaintiff's mother that D. Hyles did not write it."
Despite the allegations, David Hyles was promoted to greater positions of influence.
Miles said when she was 14, she had her mother listen in on a phone call as David Hyles asked her to stand by a window naked so he could see her.
David Hyles took at least a dozen pornographic photos of Miles nude and wearing lingerie he bought for her, the suit claims.
When Miles was 14, David Hyles took her to a summer camp in Tennessee where he raped her in a chapel room behind the alter, she alleges.
He also is accused of taking her at the age of 15 to a motel in Illinois and leaving her alone, at which time she attempted to call home but was unable to because of the long distance charge, the suit states.
David Hyles then returned to the room with a briefcase full of pornographic images of Miles and other young girls from the church, and again drugged and raped her, the suit claims.
When Miles attempted to end the sexual abuse at the age of 17 as she prepared to get married, David Hyles allegedly told her she needed to come back and have a baby by him, the lawsuit states.
Miles was married by 18 and then divorced eight years later due to mental disabilities, she said. She began seeing a psychologist at the age of 22, who linked her psychosomatic symptoms to the abuse at the hands of David Hyles, she said.
She claims the abuse led to a life-threatening hospitalization, the inability to maintain employment, a lost home, a divorce, a lack of children, ongoing counseling and mental health issues, a loss of contact with her immediate family and a loss of faith. She was hospitalized for 10 days in 2018 for a suicide attempt, she said.
The suit alleges that other young girls have accused David Hyles of abuse "to no avail."
The lawsuit targets David Hyles, the college and church.
"First Baptist and the college treated rape, sexual abuse and sexual assault as an internal matter and 'dealt' with these serious allegations internally, rather than bringing in outside investigators or bringing the information to law enforcement," the suit says. "In fact, great lengths were taken to prevent law enforcement from learning of the rape, sexual abuse and sexual assault."
No criminal charges have been filed in the case involving Miles. "Criminal charges can still be pursued," Pileika, Miles' attorney, told The Times in a text Thursday. "And we certainly are willing to assist in any criminal investigation (to) bring them in the future."
The suit accuses the church and school of routinely moving employees, including David Hyles, to other roles in which they continued to have access to children. "Sexual abuse has been tolerated and ignored by the church and college, and its leadership, for decades," the suit says.
The suit claims the statute of limitations has not expired in this case.
The lawsuit was filed as class action on behalf of the "dozens, if not hundreds" of others alleging sexual abuse from David Hyles or others at the church or college.
"By filing this case as a class action, Nanette and her attorneys hope to give survivors of sexual abuse a voice and legal mechanism to hold leaders at First Baptist and other Independent Fundamental Baptist churches accountable for perpetrating and covering up horrific acts of child sex abuse for decades," according to a press release from her attorneys.
The multi-count suit seeks an undeclared amount of money.
Hammond, Ill
Gay, Anglican Priest may have Sexually Assaulted 500 First Nations boys in Canada's North
Anthony Melting Tallow, FB post
24 September 2019 ·
For almost two decades, Ralph Rowe sexually abused hundreds of First Nation boys in the north during his days as an Anglican minister. Survivors Rowe details the life of Ralph Rowe, a former Anglican priest who flew his own plane into remote First Nations communities across Canada in the 1970s and ‘80s. The film captures the men’s deepest and darkest secrets. They often cried in front of the camera, talking about the confusion they felt when first being molested.
Taking turns, the men share their pain and turmoil they went through in their adulthood years, lives eventually consumed by rage, alcohol, drugs, dysfunction, and in one case, a questioning of his own sexuality.
To earn their trust, Roher spent time in the men’s homes and with their family members. “These guys were willing to share their story and that’s why the interviews were so successful,” says Roher. “They trusted me and they were ready to tell their story.”
It's amazing they would ever trust anyone.
The men also share their healing paths, journeys that continue for each of them today.
Since 1994, Ralph Rowe was convicted of more than 50 sex crimes against boys aged 8 to 14. He served under five years in jail. Despite 21 more First Nation men coming forward, Rowe’s 1994 plea deal prevented Rowe from facing further convictions.
Less than a year for every 100 kids whose lives he destroyed. His real punishment awaits him in a higher court.
Today Rowe lives in the community of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island., part of the western Canadian Province of British Columbia.
Title ~ “Performers of our Concert Christmas”, 1924.
Anglican Indian Schools photo album.
St. John's Indian Residential School, Chapleau, Ontario.
~ “What people need to know is the church enabled him to do this. They gave him a role as a priest and they gave him a plane for him to be able to fly around to our communities. We now know through our counselling agencies in the north and through the court systems — the estimates are during the 22-year period he was up here that he sexually assaulted and abused over 500 young boys during that time.
Similar to the residential school experience,
now we are seeing the intergenerational impact of these victims,”
~ Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN),
Alvin Fiddler's statement, Jan 19th, 2017.
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