To Timothy Lucas, it sounded like easy money.
All he had to do was let a doctor give him a physical exam and he would earn $50 — no small amount for the homeless Lexington man.
Instead, Lucas became one of an unknown number of people allegedly duped by a man posing as a doctor doing medical [...]
Former Pastor becomes Fake Doctor and gets arrested
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · News
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No mercy - call for pedophile Andrew William Dawson-Ryan
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · News
A REMORSELESS Anglican Church pedophile who systematically abused boys “hundreds of times” must be shown no mercy, say prosecutors.
Prosecutors today told the District Court there was no reason to extend leniency to former Church of England Boys Society youth leader Andrew William Dawson-Ryan.
The 60-year-old’s counsel were hard-pressed to disagree – an hour-long hearing, set down [...]
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Former pastor Giffin faces 6 rape charges
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · News
The former Cornersburg clergyman used his authority to take advantage of the woman, a prosecutor alleges.
YOUNGSTOWN — Dale Giffin, who resigned as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Cornersburg last fall, has been indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury on six counts of rape.
The indictment, returned Thursday, alleges Giffin, 59, of Topaz Circle, Canfield, [...]
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Pastor Hides Child Molester In Church Parsonage
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · News
Residents called for the Brooklyn Town Council president to resign Thursday night.
The call comes following the finding that Brooklyn Town Council President Frank Sams is housing his brother-in-law, Dennis Waltz, 55, who is a convicted child molester, at the Brooklyn Church of the Nazarene parsonage within 1,000 feet of a school. Sams is the pastor [...]
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Preacher Convicted of Child Molestation - Gaines
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments · News
ROCK PORT, Mo. — After deliberating nearly nine hours, an Atchison County jury on Thursday night convicted Joseph R. Gaines III, 60, of two felony counts of first-degree child molestation and one count of first-degree statutory sodomy.
The jury could not reach a verdict on a second count of statutory sodomy.
The verdicts in the court of [...]
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