Black Collar Crime Round-Up: September 16, 2012
Sentenced: Reuben Bynum, 61, former CFO, Trinity Missionary Baptist Church, Pontiac, Michigan, to 50 months to 20 years and ordered to pay $669,163 in restitution, plus $99,225 in interest, for embezzling some $650,000 from his church. Story: Conservative Babylon, February 24, 2012; Conservative Babylon, June 10, 2012; Oakland Press, September 13, 2012
Guilty plea: Timothy Lavell Dampier, 39, minister and singer-musician at numerous Seattle, Washington-area churches and youth programs, including Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church; New Hope Baptist Church; Union Gospel Mission; Samuel House; Ruth Dykeman Children’s Center; et al.; former foster parent; and, according to a MySpace page, son of “the Late Rev Ellis Wortham Sr.,” who played at the House of Blues. Dampier pleaded guilty to 22 counts of sexually abusing ten boys, ages of nine and 17 between 1997 and 2011. SeattlePI.com reports that Dampier “initially denied the charges, but on Thursday he pleaded guilty to first and second degree rape of a child. He also pleaded guilty to first, second, and third degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of child pornography and communication with a minor for immoral purposes,” and adds: “Detectives said Dampier had been investigated for inappropriate sexual contact with children at least four different times in the past, but because witnesses did not wish to cooperate with investigators, he was never charged.” Dampier is scheduled for sentencing October 12, 2012; he is expected to receive 22 years in prison. Story: SeattlePI.com, September 14, 2012
Convicted: Stanley Oneal Porter, founder & pastor, Friendship Baptist Church, Eight Mile (Mobile County), Alabama, and Christian radio host, WGOK; of second-degree sodomy against a 15-year-old boy in 2009. The boy was cleaning the church alone after choir practice when, authorities say, Porter , then 49, “offered to give the boy a ride home and then sodomized him,” according to the Press-Register, which adds: “It is not the first time that Porter has been accused of sexual abuse. In 2003, when he was a middle school counselor, police arrested him and charged him with paying a male Calloway-Smith Middle School student to have sex with him. The Mobile County school board fired Porter the next year, but a Mobile County grand jury declined to indict him.” Porter could get up to 20 years. Story: Press-Register, September 12, 2012
Charged: James Napier, 60, pastor, New Beginnings Christian Mission (a storefront ministry proselytizing to the homeless), Biddeford, Maine, and former middle school teacher; with felony possession of child pornography. Napier was arrested at his Alfred home after permitting police, acting on a tip, to search his computer, which reportedly contained more than 100 images of young children engaged in sex acts. Napier, currently free on $500 bail, is due in court October 23, 2012. Story: Journal Tribune, September 5, 2012; Maine Sunday Telegram, September 6, 2012; Kennebec Journal, September 9, 2012
Sentenced: Sammy Nuckolls, 33, Southern Baptist traveling evangelist from Olive Branch, Mississippi, and LifeWay Christian Resources camp pastor, folllowing his conviction on 13 counts of video voyeurism; to 10 years in prison. Nuckolls, who had already pleaded guilty to video voyeurism charges in Arkansas, for which he was sentenced to five years’ probation and sex-offender registration, placed hidden video cameras in private bathrooms to spy on women as they did their usual bathroom business. WMCTV reports: “Nuckoll’s victims wept on the stand as they told the story of a spiritual friendship with a preacher they trusted, who wound up betraying them all. … During the sentencing phase, his victims described their anger, fear, humiliation and sleepless nights since his arrest in October of last year. Nuckolls hung his head while his former friends accused him of using his ministry to steal their innocence.” DeSoto County Judge Gerald Chatham is quoted as telling Nichols: “You’ve got 14 different victims hurt, families decimated, lives forever scarred by what you’ve done… You hid behind the cloak of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to commit these crimes … You violated the trust of these young women. You robbed them of dignity. First time I ever heard the expression video rape but I supposed that’s what it is.” WMCTV adds: “Nuckolls has recently enrolled in a Christian-based rehab program.” Nuckolls has also been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Story: Conservative Babylon, April 1, 2012; Conservative Babylon, April 4, 2012; Conservative Babylon, April 13, 2012; Conservative Babylon, July 1, 2012; Conservative Babylon, July 31, 2012; WMCTV, September 14, 2012; ABC24, September 14, 2012
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