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(origin: Michael Aquino)File: XCrime92CHRISTIAN SEX CRIMES - REPORTED 1992(by U.S. states, Canadian states, other countries)*** ALABAMA ***PASTOR BOOKED FOR MOLESTING SCHOOLGIRL. A girl, 15, wasmolested ata church-run school in Birmingham by Rev. James E. Johnson, ofEnsley, according to police. He was charged with 2nd degree sexualassault, a misdemeanor. Source: _Birmingham News_ 11/21/92.*** ARIZONA ***PRIEST GETS 10 YEARS. In an April plea-bargain, Rev. Mark Lebman,29, of St. Thomas the Apostle Church, will get a 10-year prisonsentence without parole, followed by lifetime probation, forfondling 3 young Phoenix girls. He was not prosecuted for 15 othercharges of sexual misconduct with 2 girls and a boy. He agreed topay $15,000 for counseling for all 6 victims, ages 8 to 13. Source:_Arizona Republic_ 4/11/92.PHOENIX MAN SUES POPE. A Phoenix man represented by attorneyDickTreon has added the Pope and Phoenix Bishop Thomas O'Brien to asuitfiled in 1990 over George Bredemann, 49, a long-time abuser of altarboys. Bredemann is serving 45 years in prison Source: _ArizonaRepublic_ 6/4/92.BAPTIST VOLUNTEER PREYED ON GIRLS? Thomas Road Baptist ChurchinPhoenix failed to screen church volunteer John Herman Kuiper for acriminal record when it permitted him to drive a church bus &volunteer at youth events. Kuiper, who had been convicted in 1991ofa felony charge of 3rd degree sexual assault, was arrested inPhoenix for molesting 5 girls. As a church bus driver in FortCollins, Colorado, he had received a deferred sentence for molestinga little girl, 5. Rev. Ken Adrian, church pastor, complained tomedia that the publicity was not good for his Phoenix church.Source: _Arizona Republic_ 11/4/92.LUTHERAN COUNSELOR NABBED. St. Paul Lutheran Church youthcounselorJohn Wayne Nase, 40, Phoenix, was accused of multiple counts ofchild molesting, sexual conduct with a minor & kidnapping. Policesay he ordered a boy, 12, into the choir loft & performed sex actson him after Nase's Sunday confirmation classes. Source: _ArizonaRepublic_ 7/21/92.*** CALIFORNIA ***REDEEMER CHURCH SETTLES SUIT. Redeemer Lutheran Church,Redwood
 
City, made a secret settlement to a victim of youth counselor JamesA. Weller, who had sought $25,000. The victim said the pastor andother church officials interrupted Weller when he was molesting thevictim, then 13, but failed to report it. Weller had beendishonorably discharged from the Navy for sexual molestation andhada record when he was hired by the church. He was convicted in 1990of 27 counts of sex crimes against 4 boys and a girl, including oralsex, rape and pornography. He is serving a 4-year prison sentence.Source: _Redwood City Tribune_ 5/19/92.DYING CANCER PATIENT RAPED IN MONASTERY. A terminally illwomanstaying at a Benedictine monastery in Oceanside was raped andbeatenby a masked intruder while a female accomplice ransacked her room.After beating her in the head with a flashlight, the intruder rippedher clothes, raped her and forced her into other sex acts. Source:_New York Post_ 2/27/92.PRIEST CHARGED WITH MOLESTING GIRLS. A Sacramento judgeissued awarrant for the arrest of priest Gerardo Beltran, 34, for sexuallymolesting 2 girls, ages 6 and 12, between 1989 and 1991. Beltranleft for Mexico when an investigation began. "More than anything, Ifeel angry. How dare this man come into my home and do such ahorrible thing?" said the mother of the girls. "Nothing will ever bethe same. Not only was it a horrible crime, it also affected ourreligious beliefs. This is a man who performed our Sunday Masses,who listened to our confessions." The diocese won't admitwrongdoing, but has offered counseling and an evaluation of bothgirls. Source: _Sacramento Bee_ 3/20/92.PLEA BARGAIN TO BAN PRIEST. Los Angeles city attorneys offered tosettle charges against Patrick Kelly, 72, for making sexual advancesto a girl, 9, if he agrees to stay in Ireland and not return toCalifornia for 3 years. Source: _Los Angeles Times_ 4/7/92.SAN DIEGO WOMAN SUES PRIEST. A San Diego woman, 29, filed suitagainst a retired priest and caretaker for molesting her hundreds oftimes at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church from 1974-1979. Alsonamedis the diocese of Escondido. Father Victor Ubaldi, 79, now in Italy,denies the charges. The janitor has not been located. She said themen separately committed rape, oral sex and molestation, startingwhen she was 12. She seeks to recoup the cost of psychologicalcounseling as well as unspecified damages. Another woman has comeforward saying Ubaldi fondled her at the age of 12 or 13 when hecame to her house to give communion to her sick grandmother.FatherCharles Fuld, Diocese of San Diego, insists there is "no indicationat all, that he served in anything but aIl exemplary fashion".Source: _Los Angeles Times_ 1992.PROMINENT EVANGELICAL RESIGNS; NO CHARGES? ProminentSunday-schoolteacher/leader James C. Truxton, 77, resigned his positions at the5,000-member First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton. The
 
founding president of Mission Aviation Fellowship admitted he wasstepping down because of "molestation perpetrated by me in the pastupon young girls within & outside this congregation". Truxton & hiswife's memberships were revoked They were told not to set foot onchurch property again. Both had been teaching second-graders; thewife was called "culpable". At least 7 church members in their 20s &30s said they were molested by Truxton as children. The statute oflimitations has expired; no criminal charges were filed. Whenparents 20 years ago complained to Mission Aviation Fellowshipofficials about Truxton, they were told a psychologist at FullerSeminary evaluated him, concluding he was in no need of help.Source: _National & International Religion Report_ 10/19/92.PASTOR OUSTED FROM 4,500-MEMBER CHURCH. Pastor David HockingofCalvary Church in Santa Ana was forced to resign after confessing toan affair with a married woman. Hocking, 51, is married with grownchildren. Source: _National & International Religion Report_10/19/92.CATHOLIC COACH ABUSED RUNNER. Former marathon runner LindaVanHousen, 28, was awarded $1.1 million in damages by a San Mateojurythat ruled her coach had sexually molested her for than than 10years from the time she was 13. Coach Michael Ipsen, 49, made asexual slave of her, she testified. It was unsettled who would paythe damages, pending outcome of a legal battle between the Collegeof Notre Dame in Belmont, where Ipsen had coached, & its insurancecarrier. Source: _San Francisco Chronicle_ 10/3/92SAN JOSE CATHOLIC COVER-UP? A San Jose woman is charging thatRev.Peter Luc The Phan, her priest, told her it was her religiousobligation to help him get over his "fixation with the female body".She said when she tried to break off the relationship in 1990, Phanraped her. Three priests told the woman to keep quiet to protect thechurch, she said. One priest suggested she forgive him & take uptennis. Another told her the church couldn't help her until sheagreed not to press charges. The woman, a nurse, said she has triedto commit suicide twice because of the priest, who began exploitingher when she started religious instruction with him. Source: _SanJose Mercury News_ 6/25/92.PASTOR GETS 13 YEARS FOR INCEST. Springfield Baptist ChurchpastorJon L. Walker, 43, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for molestinga relative for 2-1/2 years, beginning when she was 13. Twentypersons pleaded for leniency, including the local NAACP president.Walter's defense was to accuse his wife of concocting the charges toget even with him because he had an affair with a young churchmember! Deputy DA Karen Gray said the letters of support were "asadtestimony to the fact that Mr. Walter's life has been a fraud".Source: _San Luis Obispo Telegram Tribune_ 8/5/92.VICTIM SUES CONVICTED MINISTER. Rancho Cucamonga pastor JohnMarshall, convicted of sexually battering an ill man, 25, is being
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