Two Perverts from Ogden, UT, and A School Choir Director on P&P List

Man gets 115-year sentence in

2nd child sex abuse conviction

by Associated Press

OGDEN -- A man is going to prison after his second conviction for child sex abuse landed him a 115-year sentence.

The Standard-Examiner reports 34-year-old Richard Drew Rhodes was convicted by a jury in November and received five back-to-back prison terms this month.

Court records say a boy under the age of 12 was abused by Rhodes in 2013.

The boy told investigators the abuse occurred more often than he could count.

Rhodes took a plea deal in 2003 for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy.

He received a five-year prison sentence in May 2006 for a probation violation and was released in 2010.

Ogden man accused of sexual abuse of a child, other sex crimes

OGDEN, Utah — An Ogden man was arrested Thursday after police received reports of sexual abuse in late November.

John Schneidewend was taken into custody and booked into jail for four counts of forcible sodomy, two counts of forcible sex abuse and one count of sexual abuse of a child – all felonies.

Special Victim Unit detectives seized computers and cellphones from Schneidewend’s apartment. Police said the seized items will be analyzed at Intermountain West’s Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.

The police investigation is ongoing and Schneidewend could face additional charges.

School choir director sentenced for child sex abuse

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - A former middle-school choir director has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for repeatedly raping a female student over a period of more than two years.

The Delaware Attorney General's office announced Friday that 44-year-old Gary Smith of Newark was sentenced recently after pleading guilty in September.

Prosecutors say that while working at H.B. DuPont School in Hockessin, Smith repeatedly engaged in sex acts with a student starting in 2010, when she was 13.

Smith pleaded guilty to sexual abuse by a person in position of trust, authority or supervision and two counts of fourth-degree rape. He had been charged with 27 counts of rape, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, and sexual solicitation of a child.

Hockessin, Delaware

School Choir Director Charged with 27 Counts of Child Rape

WBOC16

HOCKESSIN, Del. (AP)- Delaware State Police have charged a middle-school choir director with repeatedly raping a female student over a period of more than two years, starting when she was 13-years-old.
   
Authorities say 43-year-old Gary F. Smith was arrested Tuesday at his home after a two-month investigation prompted by a Crime Stoppers tip.
   
Police say Smith engaged in sex acts with a student at H.B. DuPont school from April 2010 until August 2012.

Smith is charged with 27 counts of rape, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, and sexual solicitation of a child. He is being held in lieu of $815,000 cash bond.
   
It was not immediately clear whether Smith, who was placed on leave Sept. 25, has an attorney.

Church Hires Choir Director in Spite of Child Rape Charges

BEDFORD, Texas – Members of a Bedford church congregation are reeling from revelations that their interim choir director was on bond on rape charges in Alabama. (Another Alabaman pedophile?)

Charles Kyle Adcock, who goes by Kyle, was arrested in Frisco last August after being indicted in Muscle Shoals, Ala., on sexual abuse charges. His $500,000 bond was revoked Thursday afternoon.

The news shocked church members, according to one man who agreed to share information, but not his name.

Charles Kyle Adcock

He said he was not among a very small handful of people who knew of 31-year-old Kyle Adcock's past; that Adcock had been indicted in Alabama for the repeated sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in his youth group there. Adcock was youth minister at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals until 2012.

At First Baptist in Bedford, Pastor Steve Knott hired Adcock to lead the adult choir and work with the church's audio/video equipment.

"We think it's incredibly irresponsible and reckless to have hired him in the first place," said Amy Smith with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP).

Smith said it doesn't matter that Adcock was not directly working with children in Bedford.

"Having a position as minister automatically places him in a position of trust," she said.

The church member who spoke with News 8 said a group of members talked to the pastor after learning of Adcock's past.

He said they also had a long talk with Adcock and decided to support him. The choir director has pleaded not guilty.

Adcock was arrested in Frisco in August of 2014 on the Alabama charges. First Baptist in Bedford hired him while he was free on a $500,000 bond.

"That's very alarming," Smith said.

But church members say they have a history with the Adcock family. His father directed choir here until his son agreed to step in on an interim, part-time basis.

A member tells us Kyle Adcock is well liked. But there is fear the congregation could pay a price for a decision most of them knew nothing about.

At the very least the pastor(s) who hired him should be fired and the people who agreed to keep it quiet should be disciplined or shown the door.