Black Collar Crime Round-Up: April 17, 2012
Nhlanhla Ncube • Cornelius Taylor • Gary Welch • Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, a.k.a. “Jesus One Touch”
Arrested again: John H. Brothers, Jr., 43, former youth pastor, Hyland Baptist Church, Henderson, Kentucky, on “eight charges of first-degree burglary, eight charges of sexual assault on a child, and seven charges of sexual assault,” reports the News Star. “Brothers was wanted in Colorado for crimes against a child. … Brothers was arrested in 2011 in Kentucky on charges of first-degree sexual abuse of two juveniles who were members of his former church, Hyland Baptist… He resigned from the church and moved to live with relatives in West Monroe [Louisiana] in 2011.” Brothers will likely be extradited to Colorado. The status of the original Kentucky case is unknown. Story: Courier & Press, November 20, 2011; Tristatehomepage.com, November 20, 2011; News Star, April 16, 2012
Guilty plea: Geody Harman (right in photo), 38, co-founder / first counselor, Mormon breakaway sect Church of the Firstborn and General Assembly of Heaven, to one count of third-degree felony unlawful sex with a minor. Sentencing is scheduled for June 8, 2012. The a 15-year-old female victim was also raped by self-proclaimed “Holy Ghost and father of Jesus” and church president Terrill Raemon Dalton, (left in photo), 45, who was convicted in March and is scheduled to be sentenced May 11, 2012. Story: Conservative Babylon, March 22, 2012; Conservative Babylon, March 26, 2012; Salt Lake Tribune, April 13, 2012
Charged: Geoffrey Alan Kledzik, 43, campus ministry coordinator, director of student activities & peer ministry advisor, Clearwater Central Catholic High School, Clearwater, Florida; youth ministry coordinator, St. Justin, Martyr, Largo, Florida; president, Parent Teacher Organization, St. Patrick Catholic School , Largo, Florida; executive director & managing editor, Youth Ministry Network (“The Source for Catholic Youth Ministry on the W.W.W.”); information officer, Greater Largo Little League; with felony lewd and lascivious exhibition. The Tampa Bay Times rreports: “According to an arrest affidavit, Kledzik was seen masturbating in his Crown Victoria on Gandy Beach at around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, ‘in the presence of several witnesses, where children were present but did not see the incident.’ Kledzik sped away from the area, going the wrong way on Gandy Boulevard, and was pulled over by deputies for erratic driving, but was not cited then, according to reports.” Arrested at his home, “Kledzik denied the accusation. He told investigators he was looking for a place to grade school papers and was just changing into his swimsuit when beachgoers began yelling at him.” He is currently free on a $10,000 bond.
According to an alumni page on the school’s website, Kledzik is married to Diane (Friederich) Kledzik, former diocesan director of youth ministry — who also “ministered with her husband in the Cathedral’s marriage preparation process” — and who is now “on the Board of the North American Forum for Small Christian Communities and on the Executive Committee of the United States Commission on Catholic Evangelization for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. In the Diocese of St. Petersburg, she is a member of the Diocesan Core Community, Evangelization Team, RCIA Committee, Young Adult Advisory Board and Evangelization and Lifelong Faith Formation Advisory Board. At her parish of St. Patrick (Largo) Diane is involved with the Evangelization Team, Small Christian Communities and Infant Baptism Preparation.” The Kledziks have two young sons, ages three and eleven. Story: WTSP, April 17, 2012; Tampa Bay Times, April 17, 2012
Removed: Russell E. Motsay, as pastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Carbondale, Pennsylvania, while under police investigation for sexual abuse of a minor, now an adult. Motsay raised the ire of locals in 2011 when, during Mass, he
Charged: Nhlanhla Ncube, 28, pastor, Zion Apostolic Church, Nketa, Zimbabwe, with assault after allegedly striking one Lovemore Hadebe in the head with a bottle and then beating him with his fists and stomping him into unconsciousness after Hadebe caught Ncube having sex with his (Hadebe’s) wife. Ncube is currently free on ZWD$100. Story: NewsdzeZimbabwe, April 12, 2012
Sentenced: Cornelius V. Taylor, Jr., pastor, Whole Life Revival Center, Sacramento, California, to seven years, eight months in prison after his February conviction on eight counts of sexual assaults against a minor, a 16-year-old girl taken in by Taylor and his wife, whom Taylor sexually assaulted repeatedly and continuously for about two years. Story: Conservative Babylon, February 9, 2012; Sacramento Bee, April 14, 2012
Sentenced: Gary Welch, 43, former youth minister, Northside Baptist Church, Corsicana, Texas, to 55 years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child, a 13-year-old girl in his church youth group. Welch will be eligible for parole in 27-1/2 years. Story: Conservative Babylon, March 20, 2012; Conservative Babylon, March 30, 2012; Corsican Daily Sun, April 13, 2012
Acquittal appealed: Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, a.k.a. “Jesus One Touch”, 74, founder and general overseer, Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, Oblogo, Greater Accra, Ghana, whose 2011 conviction and sentencing to ten years’ hard labor for the “incest and defilement” of his own ten-year-old daughter was overturned in February, 2012; by a “highly dissatisfied” state attorney general “on grounds that the trial judge, Justice E.F. Dzakpasu, had erred in the said judgment,” reports Peacefmonline.com. Story: Conservative Babylon, November 2, 2010; December 28, 2010; January 23, 2011; February 6, 2012; February 17, 2012; March 31, 2012; Peacefmonline.com, April 14, 2012
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Are you crucifying those that have been merely “accused” as well? Or do you presume innocence until PROVEN guilty?
Our deeply held beliefs prohibit us from crucifying anyone. You must have us confused with conservative Christians.
Love,
ConBab
P.S. Whatever really happened, we do think it would be awfully foolish to change into one’s swimsuit in one’s car in a public place if there is any possibility whatsoever that someone might see your tender bits. Don’t you have public restrooms in Florida, preferably the sort with doors on the toilet stalls so no one can see your wibbly-wobblies?
P.P.S. And should you really be posting this from a Pinellas County Schools computer?
Gee, Herman, I don’t see any “crucifying”. All I see are citations of newspaper reports. Maybe you should go yell at the newspapers if you have such a bee in your bonnet.
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