The question today is not: “What was wrong with Josh Powell?” but: “Where did the Washington state system go wrong? And how did it go so wrong?”
If you don’t know the whole horrific story already, catch up on Josh Powell’s suicide and slaughter of his two small sons, and then come back and read on… (more…)
Jeremy Johnson is a 36-year-old St. George, Utah, multimillionaire Mormon “priest,” accused by a court-appointed temporary receiver of “hiding more than $50 million via a network of shell companies in order to hide assets from federal authorities,” per the St. George Daily Spectrum, which also says Johnson admits “the receiver is trying to get back tithing Johnson paid to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” (more…)
Guilty plea: Barry Caudle, 39, former youth minister, First Assembly of God, Marengo, Illinois, and former children’s pastor, Harvest Chapel, Sandwich, Illinois, to six felony counts involving the solicitation of a child for sex, including grooming and providing harmful material (”over a webcam while in the [Marengo] church,” reports the Northwest Herald). Caudle, who reportedly thought he was chatting online with a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be an undercover cop, was arrested at the First Assembly of God church. Sentencing is scheduled for April 10, 2012; in exchange for his plea, he will face no more than two years in prison and ten years’ registration as a sex offender. Story: Sun-Times Media Wire, November 1, 2011; Northwest Herald, February 16, 2012 (more…)
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Claims to fame: Devout Mormon-turning-Christian; “person of interest” in the disappearance of his wife, Susan Cox-Powell; probable wife-killer; definite baby-killer; member, Seventh Circle Club (i.e., a suicide)
Moral apex: Killed himself and murdered his five- and seven-year-old sons by burning them alive — after chopping their heads and necks with an axe. (more…)
Guilty: James Boudreau, 68, retired priest, former pastor or associate pastor at numerous Catholic churches in Ontario (including St. John the Baptist, Guelph; St. James, Oakville; Our Lady of the Assumption, Stoney Creek; St. Gabriel, Burlington; St. John’s, Kitchener; and Canadian Martyrs, Hamilton) of two charges of sexual assault committed against two boys during the 1980s. Sentencing is scheduled for April 13, 2012. Story: TheSpec, January 26, 2012 (more…)
Sentenced: Travis Wright, 48, Mormon “priest,” former Boy Scoutmaster, former manager, Waterford Loan Fund LLC / Waterford Funding LLC (”a real estate loan fund that promised returns ranging from 8 percent to 44 percent over nine months”), Draper, Utah, to ten years in federal prison plus $43.2 million in restitution after pleading guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that bilked 175 unwitting investors out of some $145 million. (more…)
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We say: About darned time!
While the Arizona Republic says: “Rachel Brock faces the same charges she faced in December, when she was arrested the first time… three counts of sexual conduct with a minor and one of furnishing obscene materials to a minor.” (more…)
Backstory:
“Christine Shreeve Hubbs: Mormon Wife Charged With 67 Counts of Child Molestation,” August 6, 2010
“Accused Mormon-Mommy Child Molester Christine Shreeve Hubbs Appears in Court,” November 4, 2011
“Mormon Hummer Mommy Christine Shreeve Hubbs Cops Plea,” February 24, 2011 (more…)
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Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock got himself in a bit of hot water for smuggling fast-food hamburgers and other special treats into prison for his pervy, cheating, child-molesting Celestial Wife (whom he’s supposed to be divorcing) — now the question is: Was he slipping her something besides meat patties behind bars? (more…)
The real question: What did Mormon church officials know, and when did they know it?
But first: Let’s back up this truck, and get to what we do know.
The short version: Five siblings become famous playing piano, selling records & selling out concerts, while Mom, Dad, and kiddies alike wax sincere about their deep and abiding faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family is portrayed as epitome of wholesome Mormonosity — until the three daughters accuse Daddy of sexually molesting them for many years. Daddy takes Mommy on “ski trip”; on way home, drives Porsche over 300-foot cliff. Both survive. Daddy confesses: While progeny plunked pianos, Daddy diddled daughters. (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Guilty: Jacob Allen Conder, 24, former minister & youth director, Wing Avenue Baptist Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, & former Daviess County deputy constable, to four more counts of sexual abuse of a teenage girl. This is Conder’s second conviction for similar crimes in as many months; the first conviction convinced two other victims to come forward. Story: Conservative Babylon, November 5, 2010; Courier-Journal, January 25, 2011 (more…)
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It sounds to us like Susan Brock has something (besides the obvious) in common with another child molester in the news recently: Their shared church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is spinning like mad regarding what church officials knew about Brock’s ongoing sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy, and the story they’re spinning makes us wonder about… a lot of things. (more…)
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Setencing is scheduled for March 16, 2011.
Listen to the “beach house” tape:
We’re still catching up with the Conservative Babylon Class of 2010 — some we covered previously, some Babylonians we missed entirely, but all of whom deserve recognition (read: exposure) as holier-than-thou right-wingers who can’t seem to live up to the impossible “family values” standards they demand of everyone else. (No, we don’t know how many parts there will be to our catch-up.) In no particular order…
And They Were Sooo Ready to Blame Teh Gheyz: When arson fires burned two Mormon meetinghouses in Salt Lake City in October, Mormon apologists were quick to blame the gay community; typical was a comment at the Mormon Apologetics & Discussion Board attempting to tie the arsonist to “an extreme terroristic style Gay and Lesbian group who are very militant and brag about vandalism and destroying LDS Church Property,” and another at LDS Freedom Forum stating that “the Catholics have been targeted by the gays for years and so it is not new. The homosexual activists will go after those who do not conform to their ideal — however, they will not mess with Muslims because they are afraid of them and they will not mess with Orthodox Jews because it would make them look anti-Semite [sic] in the press.” And then there were the outright , unfounded accusations such as this comment at the Salt Lake Tribune: “Patrick Ehat is gay and said he did it as revenge. Why does the trib edit this out?” Never mind that Patrick Ehat, Brigham Young University student and Mormon priest who served his two-year mission in Brazil, reportedly told police he set the fires “because he ‘believed the LDS Church had lied to him’” after he was arrested and charged with two counts each of arson, criminal mischief and burglary in connection with the fires. And never mind that it was Ehat’s girlfriend who tipped off Ehat’s father (who then convinced Ehat to turn himself in). (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Accused: Dustin Cassady, 29, Mormon priest (they all are at this age) of Carmichael, California (a suburb of Sacramento), who “told agents he worked with children at a Mormon Church in the area,” of distributing child pornography. We have much, much more information about Dustin Cassady (from his employer to when and where he was married to where he went on his two-year Mormon mission), but will wait to share everything until we have confirmation from the mainstream media that we do, indeed, have the right Dustin Cassady. Stay tuned. Story: News10.net, January 21, 2011 (more…)
Claims to fame: Former Utah state senator (2003-10); state senate majority leader (2008-10); Mormon; drunk driver; hypocrite to the nth degree
Moral apex: Arrested January 15, 2010, on a DUI. Quit the state senate the next day. Waited more than year to plead guilty (on January 19, 2011). (more…)
Claims to fame: Former Cottonwood Heights, Utah, police officer; former police chief, South Salt Lake; former Salt Lake County undersheriff; failed candidate for Salt Lake County sheriff; failed candidate for U.S. Congress; former Democrat-turned-Republican; devout Mormon; accused thief (more…)
The short story: Tongan street gang mixes it up with rival Samoan street gang in Long Beach, California. One of the Tongans shoots and kills one of the Samoans (apparently plugging him at least once when he was already on the ground), then—
—leaves for Utah to prepare for his upcoming “two-year mission to ‘preach the gospel of the Church of the Latter Day Saints.’”
When the cops find him in Utah, he says he doesn’t know anything about the shooting in Long Beach… but, um, oh, yeah, well, maybe he does remember something, but he still didn’t do anything, and, uh, even if he did, he’s such a hotshot, he could get somebody else to take the fall for him. ‘Cause, you know, he had a mission to prepare for and everything!
The long version (which makes for most interesting reading) comes from the denial of Matangi’s appeal of his conviction of first-degree murder, among othe charges, filed January 13, 2011: (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Indicted: Tammy Futrell, 47, church day-care center director and wife of Melvin Futrell, pastor, Bethel Temple Church of Deliverance, Norfolk, Virginia, Futrell’s daughter Angel Hoskie, 27, and Dinnetta Feeney, 44, in the May, 2010, death of 7-week-old Dylan Cummings. All three women worked in the child day care center operated by the church, where the “cribs were tightly packed ‘almost like an orphanage’” inside a supply closet. All have been charged with child cruelty, child neglect and child abuse; Futrell is also charged with homicide, and has been denied bond. Dylan’s mother told WAVY: “They’re a church, you know. I trusted because it’s a church and I figured they’re good whole people.” Story: WAVY, January 7, 2011; WTKR, January 7, 2011; Virginian-Pilot, January 12, 2011 (more…)
We’re still catching up with the Conservative Babylon Class of 2010 — some we covered previously, some Babylonians we missed entirely, but all of whom deserve recognition (read: exposure) as holier-than-thou right-wingers who can’t seem to live up to the impossible “family values” standards they demand of everyone else. (No, we don’t know how many parts there will be to our catch-up.) In no particular order…
Too Bad the Legal System Doesn’t Move as Fast as Church Tribunals: Charged with 20 counts of felony theft for embezzling nearly $400,000, Donald Armstrong, 61, former Episcopal priest & rector, Grace and St. Stephen’s Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded no contest in September. He’d already been defrocked in 2007. (more…)
Because we could spend 24/7 tracking the sins 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.
Sacked: Marshall Brown, 57, former associate rector, Truro Church, Fairfax, Virginia, “for repeatedly using a church computer to surf for pornography.” One of the largest Episcopal parishes in the U.S., Truro broke away from the American mother church to follow the radically homophobic Uganda-based Anglican strain; Brown, notes WaPo, “helped lead 14 Virginia parishes to break away from the Episcopal Church after the 2003 election of the denomination’s first openly gay bishop.” WaPo also notes that “Truro arranged for Brown, now 57, to receive treatment for an Internet addiction after he reported having a problem.” Story: Washington Post, January 7, 2011 (more…)
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Tsk! It’s not that we don’t kinda, sorta feel sorry for the guy, but we have to wonder where Good Mormon Priest Fulton went wrong in leading his Eternal Family into the Celestial Kingdom:
Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock expected to become chairman of the Board of Supervisors on Thursday, but a family sex scandal set off a political debate that has cost him the leadership post. …Rachel’s arrest was the deciding factor in Brock relinquishing his bid for the board chairmanship. …
Full story: Arizona Republic, January 5, 2011
Sounds like somebody got cold feet about filing formal charges against Rachel Brock, 21-year-old daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and his soon-to-be ex-wife 48-year-old Susan Brock — so, they let her out. Cops say the case is ongoing. Details: KPHO; Arizona Republic.
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