Black Collar Crime Round-Up: July 13, 2012
Bridgett Barnes Steib • Teresa Stone / David Love • Toris Young
Plea delayed, new charge made: Mason Joel Davidson, 23, Christian camp counselor, Baptist camps Camp Peniel, Yarmouth, and Kingswood Camp, Kentville, both in Nova Scotia; and employed or formerly employed by various other youth-oriented organizations; initially charged with allegedly exposing himself to a child, reportedly a young boy at the Yarmouth camp, in 2011. Davidson did not enter a plea as expected July 10, 2012; he is now due back in court July 24, 2012. On July 10th, the Chronicle Herald reported that the “Yarmouth RCMP are investigating further allegations of sexual misconduct involving Davidson and say they are preparing to lay another charge,” which has now reportedly been made: “sexual interference alleged to have occurred sometime last summer over a six-day period,” relating “to an incident in which Davidson is accused of touching the genitals of a boy for a sexual purpose. Sources familiar with the investigation have said the offence is alleged to have taken place at a Camp Peniel… Those sources also said more than one child was interviewed by police.” Story: Conservative Babylon, July 11, 2012; Chronicle Herald, July 10, 2012; CJLS, July 10, 2012; Yarmouth County Vanguard, July 11, 2012; CJLS (with RCMP audio), July 11, 2012; Chronicle Herald, July 13, 2012
Sentenced: William Miltner, 29, former dean of students, teacher, coach and alumnus, Mater Dei Prep Catholic high school, Middletown, New Jersey; and former teacher, Mother Teresa Regional School, Atlantic Highlands; to four years in prison, supervised parole for life, sex-offender registration and permanent forfeiture of his state teaching license, after pleading guilty in January to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old female Mater Dei student whom he engaged in a sexual relationship for six months in 2009. Story: Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, July 10, 2012; Asbury Park Press, July 10, 2012
New charge: Angel Perez-Nieves, 45, pastor, Templo Pentecostal Puerto de Salvacion, Kissimmee, Florida, already charged with unlawful sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy who belonged to Perez’s church (allegedly because a “demon” made him do it), now accused of “ripping off a member of his own church,” reports WFTV. “Investigators said Angel Perez-Nieves stole the victim’s personal information and used it to get an alarm system for the church, then never paid the bill.” Story: Conservative Babylon, May 23, 2012; WFTV, July 12, 2012
Convicted: Oscar D. Perez Perez, 69, pastor, Iglesia Antigua Católica, Laguna Hills, California, “of sexually assaulting five young parishioner boys in his Lake Forest apartment,” reports the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Perez “was found guilty by a jury of 22 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14, four felony counts of lewd acts on a child, and sentencing enhancement allegations for lewd acts against multiple victims. Perez faces a maximum sentence of 330 years to life in state prison and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration at his sentencing Sept. 14, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. in Department C-28, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana. … Between 2007 and 2011, Perez sexually assaulted the five victims between the ages of 9 and 15 years old on one or more occasions while they were visiting or sleeping over at the defendant’s apartment. … Perez’s lifetime sex offender registration will bar him from entering County recreational areas and City parks which have passed the Sex Offender Ordinance.” [q.v.] Story: Conservative Babylon, July 4, 2012
Charged: Bridgett Barnes Steib, 49, co-pastor with her husband Joseph Steib, Ministry of Love, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with simple arson and arson with intent to defraud after allegedly trying to burn down her own home. Bridgett Steib’s sister, Lucille Barnes Brown, 42, has also been charged with simple arson. AP reports that State Fire Marshal Butch Browning says “the fire happened not long after a new insurance policy was taken out on the home.” The Advocate notes: “The Ministry of Love is a full gospel church, which Steib and her husband, Joseph, started in 1994 in their home. Since then it has steadily grown from 20 members to more than 400 members and expanded to include two day-care centers and a school of ministry… Bridgett Steib also hosts local radio broadcasts and women’s conferences, writes books and has appeared on numerous Christian television programs, most recently with Paula White on Trinity Broadcasting Network.” Story: WAFB, July 9, 2012; WAFB, July 11, 2012; NBC33, July 11, 2012; AP, July 12, 2012; The Advocate, July 13, 2012
Sentenced: Teresa Stone, 40, to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring with her lover, David Love, 51, former pastor, New Hope Baptist Church, Independence, Missouri, to murder her husband, Randy Stone, insurance agent and New Hope church member, on March 31, 2010. At Stone’s sentencing, reports the Kansas City Star, prosecutor Tammy Dickinson said, “Her lover was her hit man,” adding that Stone allowed Love “access to her husband’s collection of guns (one of which Love used to shoot him), mistakenly believed she would be the beneficiary of several life insurance policies and then — after Love killed her husband — allowed the killer to preside over her husband’s funeral.” Love, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to second-degree murder and armed criminal action, is currently serving a life sentence. He will be eligible for parole in 2036. Story: Conservative Babylon, November 15, 2010; Conservative Babylon, December 22, 2010; Conservative Babylon, December 28, 2010; Conservative Babylon, January 10, 2011; Conservative Babylon, February 2, 2011; KCTV, November 9, 2011; Kansas City Star (with video), November 10, 2011; Kansas City Star (with video), June 15, 2012
Sentenced: Toris Young, 40, pastor, Greater Bibleway Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (which believes “those [who] have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior will be caught up to meet Him in the air”); president, Greater Bibleway Housing & Community Development Corp. of Louisiana; CEO, Greater Bibleway Recording Group; president, Louisiana Ministerial Alliance of Churches For All People; to ten years in prison (the maximum allowed) after pleading guilty in February to charges of theft of government funds and mail fraud; i.e., stealing nearly $1 million marked for Hurricane Katrina victims, and using the money to buy jewelry, cars, clothes and real estate, and pay credit card bills. Young is already serving a 27-month sentence for bank fraud and identity theft, to which he pleaded guilty while on parole for a 2006 conviction on 11 counts of access device fraud and identity theft. Story: Conservative Babylon, February 3, 2012; Globe and Mail (video), July 12, 2012
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