Black Collar Crime Round-Up: November 2, 2009
Kent Thomas Johnson • Michael Robert Joy • Derwin Pasley
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sex crimes of right-wing religionists (especially “youth pastors”) and never get caught up. Of the following, the more interesting cases will probably end up with their very own Conservative Babylon entries.
Charged: Ralph Lee Aaron, 54, pastor, Grace Christian Fellowship, Andalusia, Alabama — originally charged with three counts of first-degree sexual abuse, including first-degree sodomy, of a boy under 12 — and, ultimately, a total of 152 counts termed “‘atrocious acts’ stemming from allegations he sexually abused and tortured young boys while on camping trips.” Bond set at $24.2 million. Story: Conservative Babylon, October 26, 2009; Andalusia Star-News, October 28, 2009
Shot and killed: Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a.k.a.Christopher Thomas, imam, Muslim-fundamentalist Masjid Al-Haqq mosque, Detroit, Michigan, “during a series of FBI raids that resulted in charges against 11 and the death of an FBI dog.” Authorities say Abdullah was “the leader of part of the Ummah (’the brotherhood’), a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States.” Story: Press & Guide, October 30, 2009
Arrested and charged: Kent Thomas Johnson, 53, Theater and Dance Department Chair, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Texas, a pricey (nearly $20,000-a-year tuition) property of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, with two counts of possession of child pornography, in an online sting. Story: Press & Guide, October 30, 2009; KTRK, November 2, 2009
Arrested and charged: Michael Robert Joy, 40, church youth volunteer, Stony Point Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kansas, with one count of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. Joy had been “convicted and served time back in 1991 for molesting children, but … Joy told the church he went to prison for something else…” During a background check, Joy’s name did not show up on the state sex offender registry, because Joy’s previous conviction was in 1991, and the registry wasn’t created until 1994. Apparently, the church didn’t do its homework well at all, since we were able to find Joy within seconds on the Kansas Department of Corrections Web site, which details his felony conviction for indecent liberties with a child. Story: KCTV; video, October 27, 2009
Arrested: Derwin Pasley, 32, Black Hills Junior Football League (Olympia, Washington) coach and former youth pastor, for raping a 14-year-old boy on his team. Two days after Pasley’s arrest, another boy, age 13, ” said Paysley “touched him in the same way” in the fall of 2008. Despite the “shock” at the allegations of league president Charles Farrar (who proclaims: “There’s a grown man and a young kid, and one of them’s lying”), records show Pasley had been arrested previously for a felony sex crime against a child in 1994 in Florida, but was acquitted. Story: The Olympian, October 27, 2009; KIRO, October 27, 2009; KING5, October 29, 2009
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