Jordan David Gill
Claims to fame: Youth pastor and son of pastor Les Gill, Word of Life Church, Boyle, Alberta, Canada; convicted child molester
Moral apex #1: Sexually molested a young girl — who, with her family, belonged to the Gills’ church — for nearly seven years, beginning when he was 16 years old, and she was just five. Reported the Edmonton Sun, “Gill attacked the girl at her home, at his home and on the ‘Bible Bus,’ a 15-seat van used to take church youth to various activities.”
Moral apex #2: He continued abusing her even after he was married. (By the time he was sentenced, Gill was the father of a three-year-old boy and a year-old girl.)
Plea: Guilty to sexual touching of a minor.
Sentence: Just one lousy year — one lousy, freaking year — plus a mere two years’ probation, a court order “that Gill not be allowed to hold any station that places him in a position of trust over children younger than 10,” and listing on the nation’s sex offender registry (which is not viewable by the public; it is accessible only by Canadian authorities) for 20 years.
What’s worse: According to the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), Gill was charged previously with similar crimes against another girl in his church, but there was no follow-up; a spokesman said the RCMP was “still open to new information if anyone were to come forward.”
Aftermath: The Word of Life Church “is gone from Boyle, and the victim’s family said the Gills are now running a church in Fort Saskatchewan.”
Memorable quotes:
“Why didn’t I see? How could I not know? My poor little girl, I am so sorry this happened to you.”— Victim’s mother, at Gill’s sentencing
“I feel like I failed as a protector of my family. I am so very angry at the perverted betrayal that has… robbed the innocence of my little girl.”
— Victim’s father
What put Gill on our radar: “Boyfriend’s past tears family apart,” QMI Agency, August 26, 2010:
When Nabil discovered his daughter’s boyfriend of more than a year is a notorious pedophile, his world — and his family — were torn apart.“It was like somebody cut open my chest and ripped out my heart,” he said, “It hurt more than any physical pain I’ve ever felt.”
Nabil said the man — who wanted to marry his daughter, who had been sleeping two to three nights a week under Nabil’s roof and who had even been invited to a child’s birthday party — had been lying to keep his dark past from Nabil and his daughters, Masoomah and Aiza. …
It’s a cruel irony that the very system set up to protect families, like Nabil’s, from child molesters and rapists — the federal sex offender registry — did a better job of protecting Gill’s privacy. …
The registry is for police eyes only — the public has no access to it because privacy laws forbid it. …
See also:
“Fort man pleads guilty to molesting child in Boyle court,” Fort Saskatchewan Record, 2006
“‘My Poor Little Girl’,” Edmonton Sun, March 1, 2007 (alternate link)
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Gill:
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.— Job 8:15
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