Wolves Among the Sheep > Texas Megachurch Youth Volunteer solicited nudes from teen girls

 

Texas Megachurch Youth Leader Arrested

for Child Sex Videos

A youth leader at a Texas megachurch has been arrested for allegedly inducing young girls to send him explicit inappropriate images.

Prosecution documents in Abilene, Texas, state that 24-year-old Charles Goff admitted to police that he went on social media and solicited nude photos from girls aged 14 and 15. They also allege that Goff met with a fellow church member and admitted his wrongdoing.

Goff was a youth volunteer at Beltway Park Church, a large baptist megachurch in Abilene in north central Texas with two campuses in the city and a congregation of nearly 5,000 people every week.

Beltway Park Church has a kid's club and other youth groups, according to its website. The church said in a statement that Goff had passed two background checks—one before he began youth volunteer work and another two years later during standard youth volunteer monitoring.The ABC Texas affiliate KTXS reported that police found three explicit and inappropriate videos of young girls on Goff's phone.

Goff was charged on Wednesday with third degree felony charges of possessing child sexual abuse images. He was booked at the Taylor County Jail on a $100,000 bond.

Newsweek sought email comment from Beltway Park Church's youth director on Thursday.

The church released a letter from chief pastor David McQueen on Wednesday, in which he wrote that "this is a difficult letter for me to write, but it is important."

"I need to let you know about a serious matter involving a former volunteer and to provide clear information about the steps we've taken to address this situation."

"In June 2024, we were made aware that a former volunteer with our youth ministry confessed to soliciting inappropriate photos and videos of minors online."

"Upon receiving this report, we immediately notified the proper authorities. We have and will continue to cooperate fully with the investigation. We learned today that this individual was arrested."

McQueen wrote that he doesn't know all the details yet but the former volunteer "had been a youth volunteer in our church for approximately three years, until this past summer."

"As part of our normal safety protocols, this individual passed a background check before he was an active volunteer in 2022 and then again as part of our standard volunteer protocol in 2024. Prior to the report in June, he had served in good standing, with no prior concerns or complaints raised," he said.

"We currently have no indication that any minors from our church were involved in any inappropriate activity with this former volunteer."

McQueen urged anyone with information to contact the Abilene Police Department.

"As always, we are here to offer prayer, support and additional ministry resources throughout this process to anyone who may have been impacted by these events. We stand ready to assist in any way," he said.

The Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Tekashi 6ix9ine - full-spectrum idiot; Chasing Horse indicted again

 

Tekashi 6ix9ine thrown in jail after showing up to NY court

an hour late, allegedly testing positive for meth

Tekashi 6ix9ine was thrown behind bars for at least two weeks Tuesday for a slew of alleged violations — including testing positive for methamphetamine, taking a trip to Las Vegas and showing up an hour late to court.

Manhattan federal Judge Paul Engelmayer ripped the traditionally rainbow-haired rapper — whose real name is Daniel Hernandez — for having a “full spectrum disregard for the law” and violating terms of his supervised release.

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The rapper was indicted on racketeering charges in 2018 and cut a plea deal.

Tekashi has been a free man since 2020, when he was released following a two-year prison stint on charges including conspiracy to commit murder related to his ties to Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.

He was due in court at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday — but instead was an hour late, infuriating Engelmayer, who ordered his arrest.

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“I’m not a bad person,” Tekashi, 28, said in court during an afternoon hearing, noting that he’d flown into New York Monday night from Florida.

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‘Dances with Wolves’ actor is again

indicted on sexual abuse charges

By Ken MacGillivray with files from the Associated Press  Global News

Posted October 31, 2024 4:05 pm

 Updated November 1, 2024 10:07 am

 3 min read

WATCH FROM FEBRUARY 27, 2023: The Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service have issued warrants for Dances with Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse for charges including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and sexual interference with a person under 16. Ina Sidhu reports. – Jun 14, 2023

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A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls for decades, reviving a sweeping criminal case against the former Dances with Wolves actor, who is also facing several arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed in Alberta.

Chasing Horse was initially arrested in January 2023 following an investigation that spanned multiple provinces and U.S. states, including Montana, Nevada, British Columbia and Alberta.

Following his arrest, the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service said it had filed several arrest warrants and believe there are two alleged victims in Alberta.

It also made an appeal for any other victims to come forward.

Contacted by Global News following the news that Chasing Horse has been indicted again, a spokesperson for the Tsuut’ina Police said “it remains an open investigation.”

Chasing Horse also faces a charge of sexual assault in British Columbia.

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In February 2023, the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service announced it had filed serveral arrest warrants for former Dances with Wolves star Nathan Chasing Horse. Global News

Best known for portraying the character Smiles A Lot in the 1990 movie “Dances with Wolves,” Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.

After starring in the Oscar-winning film, authorities have said, he propped himself up as a self-proclaimed Lakota medicine man while travelling around North America to perform healing ceremonies.

He is accused of using that position to gain the trust of vulnerable Indigenous women and girls, and take underage wives.

In 2015, the Tsuut’ina First Nation Band Council passed a resolution banning Chasing Horse from the First Nation.

The 21-count indictment unsealed on Thursday, Oct. 31, in Clark County District Court in Nevada, expands on the 48-year-old’s previous felony charges of sexual assault, lewdness and kidnapping to also include charges of producing and possessing child sexual abuse materials.

It comes after the Nevada Supreme Court in September ordered the dismissal of the indictment, while leaving open the possibility for charges to be refiled.

Proceedings in the case by then had been at a standstill for more than a year while Chasing Horse challenged it.

The court sided with Chasing Horse, saying in its scathing order that prosecutors had abused the grand jury process.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson quickly vowed to seek another indictment.

Neither Wolfson nor Chasing Horse’s lawyer, Kristy Holston, immediately responded Thursday to phone or emailed requests for comment.

Chasing Horse had pleaded not guilty, with his lawyer arguing the charges should be dismissed because, the former actor said, the sexual encounters were consensual.

Authorities say one of his accusers was younger than 16, the age of consent in Nevada, when the abuse began.

He has remained jailed in Las Vegas since his arrest.

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Best known for portraying the character Smiles A Lot in the 1990 movie “Dances with Wolves,” Chasing Horse was initally arrested in January 2023 following an investigation that spanned multiple provinces and U.S. states, including Montana, Nevada, British Columbia and Alberta. Las Vegas Review-Journal

When the Nevada Supreme Court ordered the dismissal of Chasing Horse’s initial indictment, the judges said they were not weighing in on his guilt or innocence, calling the allegations against him serious.

But the court said that prosecutors improperly provided the grand jury with a definition of grooming without expert testimony, and faulted them for withholding from the grand jury inconsistent statements made by one of his accusers.

Chasing Horse’s legal issues have been unfolding at the same time lawmakers and prosecutors around the U.S. are funnelling more resources into cases involving Indigenous women, including human trafficking and murders.

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Islam in Asia > Afghan women must be invisible, uneducated, unemployed, and silent

 

Taliban bans Afghan women from

‘hearing each other’ in latest oppressive law

By Michelle Butterfield  Global News

Posted October 31, 2024 12:23 pm

 3 min read

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Taliban rulers in December 2022 ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities. Getty Images

The Taliban has enacted yet another law further oppressing the freedoms of women and girls, this time issuing a decree that prohibits them from praying aloud or reciting the Qur’an in each other’s presence.

The move comes after a series of so-called “virtue” or “morality” laws were implemented in Afghanistan in August, laid out in a 114-page document that covered vast aspects of everyday public life.

Among the new laws announced in August were directives making it mandatory for women to veil their entire bodies, including their faces, at all times in public. Women were also forbidden from singing, reciting and reading aloud in public, as a woman’s voice is deemed “intimate” and should not be heard.

'Intimate' means that men might lose control and have to rape a woman if he hears her voice. Self-control is a virtue in Christianity, but not, apparently, in Islam.

Women are already excluded from education after sixth grade, many public spaces and most jobs. They are also prohibited from looking at men they are not related to by blood or marriage.

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Taliban bans women’s voices, bare faces from public in new restrictive laws

During an event in eastern Logar province on Sunday, the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Minister Khalid Hanafi said: “It is prohibited for a grown woman to recite Quranic verses or perform recitations in front of another grown woman. Even chants of takbir (Allahu Akbar) are not permitted.”

He said that uttering similar expressions like “subhanallah,” another word central to the Islamic faith, was also not allowed. A woman was not permitted to perform the call to prayer, he told the gathering.

“Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear.”

“How could they be allowed to sing if they aren’t even permitted to hear (each other’s) voices while praying, let alone for anything else.”

And while precise details of the Taliban’s ruling are unclear, Afghan human rights activists have warned it could mean women are effectively banned from holding conversations with one another.

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Afghan women sing in protest against strict Taliban laws : ‘My voice is not ‘aurat”

On Tuesday, the ministry said a country-wide awareness program is coming to “contribute to shaping public perception and increasing awareness of divine rulings.”

The Taliban set up the ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021.

They banned women from working at non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 2022. A woman who spoke to Global News said her family was plunged into poverty after she had to give up her job at an NGO.

“I am the breadwinner of my family. We are just four persons in my family: me, my sister and my parents. My father is sick now. We don’t have anything in our kitchen to prepare for dinner or for our night,” she said.

“It’s so hard for me. I don’t know how I can continue my life.”

The hardline laws also instruct drivers to not transport women without a male guardian, and passengers and drivers must perform prayers at designated times. Other restrictions include making it illegal to play music, and men are barred from shaving their beards as well as skipping prayer and religious fasts.

Media in Afghanistan must abide by Sharia law, meaning the publication of images depicting living beings is forbidden, in line with the Islamic prohibition of idolatry.

A UN report published in July said the ministry was contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans through edicts and the methods used to enforce them.

“Given the multiple issues outlined in the report, the position expressed by the de facto authorities that this oversight will be increasing and expanding gives cause for significant concern for all Afghans, especially women and girls,” said Fiona Frazer, the head of the human rights service at the UN mission in Afghanistan.

The Taliban rejected the UN report.

— With files from The Associated Press and Global News