Assaults and Sexual Crimes 02/17/2023
Feb 19, 2023(February 15) Macon Pastor Preached At Several Central Georgia Churches While On Sex Offender Registry | Macon, GA
A Macon pastor jumped around several Central Georgia churches while he was on Georgia's sex offender registry.
Donald Williams was pled guilty and was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. A judge sentenced him to at least 20 years in prison Monday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Sex Offender Registry says Williams was added to the registry in August 2010. 13WMAZ obtained records of two cases where Williams is accused of sexually assaulting or attempting to abuse a minor.
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(February 15) Oklahoma Pastor Sent Sexually Charged Text Messages, Court Docs Say | Miami, OK
A Wyandotte pastor accused of abusing a child sent several sexually suggestive and inappropriate text messages to a juvenile victim, including one message about “wanting to smell her underwear,” court documents show.
Fred McCoy Gammon, Jr, 42, of Miami, is charged in Ottawa County District Court with child sexual abuse. He is free on $35,000 bail, court records show.
Gammon is still listed on the website as the reverend of Wayside Assembly of God church in Wyandotte.
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(February 14) VIDEO: Driver Intentionally Strikes Woman At Castro Valley Church | Castro Valley, CA
A Castro Valley church’s surveillance cameras recorded a driver repeatedly striking an elderly woman with a car as she was walking towards First Presbyterian Church.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office described the intentional hit-and-run attack as “horrific.” ACSO released the video on Tuesday because investigators need the public’s help to identify the woman’s assailant.
The hit-and-run happened at 7:18 p.m. on February 11 in the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church on Grove Way.
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(February 14) Newly Released Footage Shows Pastor Charged With Capital Sexual Battery Denying Allegations, Praying During Interrogation | Florida
Police footage of the interrogation of Florida pastor Paul Dyal and his sons, Shawn and Darrin, has been released in advance of Dyal’s trial for two counts of sexual battery on a child. Dyal was charged alongside two members of his church, Jerome Teschendorf and Vernon Williamson, last year.
Longtime pastor of The Jacksonville Assembly of the Body of Christ, Dyal has been accused of sexual and physical abuse dating back at least 30 years. His charges, along with the charges against Teschendorf and Williamson, are capital offenses.
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(February 12) Pastor at Lake Zurich Church, School Reinstated Once Again Following Latest Child Sex Abuse Investigation | Lake Zurich, Illinois
A pastor at a Lake Zurich church and school has been once again reinstated after the Archdiocese of Chicago cleared him of new allegations of sexual abuse involving minors.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, wrote in a letter to the community at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Parish in Lake Zurich on September 17 announcing a new investigation into Father David F. Ryan.
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