A pastor at two Schuylkill County churches was arrested Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, state police said.The Rev. Alan R. Sienkiewicz, whose age and address were not available, was charged with aggravated indecent assault and related offenses.
Sienkiewicz was pastor at Christ Independent Church in Lavelle and Grace Baptist Church in Ashland.
According [...]
Entries from October 2008
Schuylkill County Pastor Charged In Assaults On Girl, 14
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · News
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Former Prosecutor/Youth Worker Charged With Corrupting Minors
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · News
A former Bucks County prosecutor who resigned one day after police discovered him half-dressed in a parked car with a minor was charged today with endangering the welfare of children and corrupting minors.
Anthony Cappuccio, 31, of Hilltown Township, and a 17-year-old boy - both part of a church youth group - were found at about [...]
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South Austin Pastor Guilty Of Molestation
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · News
After deliberating for more than three hours, a Travis County jury this afternoon found a former South Austin pastor and apartment complex handyman guilty of multiple felony counts for sexually molesting three boys in 2005 and 2006.
Rodolfo Sosa, 50, was convicted on all counts against him — five counts of indecency with a child by [...]
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Priest Caught With Pot Gets No Jail Time
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · News
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A South Charleston priest and a former drug counselor have avoided jail time and were each ordered to pay about $260 after being caught with marijuana last month.
Father James Edward O’Connor and Michael Deegan were arrested in South Charleston on Sunday, Sept. 29, about 10:35 p.m. after a police officer traveling behind [...]
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Accusations Of Sex Abuse Ring At Church
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · News
PORTLAND, Ore. — Detectives said there were more victims and more than a dozen new suspects worldwide in a suspected sex abuse ring operating out of a former Northeast Portland church.
Police think that the commune operated in the mid-1990s, involving at least 80 people living in four Northeast Portland homes.
The investigation started in 2007, when [...]
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