Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags

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Influential paedophile monk to die in prison after bizarre case divides church

A powerful paedophile monk will die in prison after survivors spoke out against their “spiritual father”, who used his influence to abuse children and keep them quiet for decades in Sydney’s Russian churches.

Alexis Rosentool, 74, has reigned as abbot of a monastery tucked away in the Snowy Mountains town of Bombala since the 1990s.

He had ascended, over the decades, through the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) in Sydney and abroad, earning the senior title archimandrite. He was considered a gifted artist who painted religious icons through the diocese’s churches and homes across the city.

But Rosentool was an active paedophile who, over 20 years, abused children within the church community.

On Friday, he faced sentencing over crimes against three boys, now adult men.

Rosentool was sentenced to 19 years in prison, 13 without parole. His life expectancy, the court heard, was about seven years due to declining health. Rosentool sat in shocked silence, dialled in from Goulburn Supermax prison.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/infl...5mlpe.html

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Former Youth Pastor Accused Of Sexually Abusing At Least 6 Teenagers

Thomas Pinkerton Jr., 52, who was commonly known as 'Pastor Tommy,' faces 24 felony and misdemeanor counts following accusations that he sexually abused six teens from 2006 to 2010 while working at Central Christian Church in Baltimore County and is being held without bond.

Pinkerton is accused of inappropriately touching and kissing six teens between the ages of 13 to 19 while serving as a youth pastor at the Assemblies of God church. A seventh man reported abuse allegedly committed by Pinkerton in Georgia, which is being referred to local authorities, and detectives believe there could be even more victims.

Pinkerton, who has recently worked as a traveling evangelist, was "completely shocked" by the charges, according to Hollimon.

Pinkerton's case is the latest incident of alleged child sex abuse allegations facing the Assemblies of God, the world's largest Pentecostal denomination.

https://wsyr.iheart.com/content/2025-08-...teenagers/

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Alabama priest accused of having a sexual relationship with teen stripper, paying her thousands in hush money

Robert Sullivan, 61, is on leave as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Homewood, Alabama, after he was publicly accused of initiating a relationship with Heather Jones, now 33, when she was a vulnerable teenager in 2009.

While tipping her, he offered her $273,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement in exchange for “an ongoing relationship that would include financial support in exchange for private companionship,” Jones alleged, telling the Guardian that the agreement included sex.

Jones, who was raised in foster care due to her mother’s “severe neglect,” said she “was hesitant but ultimately agreed due to his persistence and the state [of mind] I was in,” according to her letter to the diocese.

Days later, she received two wire transfers of $136,500 each under the name of an attorney’s office, she alleged.

Sullivan, initially posing as a doctor, took her out to shop, eat, drink and stay at hotels in at least six different Alabama cities over the course of the relationship, which lasted until this year, she alleged.

Between just July 18, 2024, and March this year, a Venmo account under Jones’ name had paid Jones almost $120,000, she told the Guardian.

Jones said she felt compelled to go public with the allegations because Sullivan works so closely with families and their children at his church.

“Others may be vulnerable to the same type of manipulation and exploitation,” she told the paper.

Sullivan has been a priest for more than 32 years and was formerly president of John Carroll High School for six years.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/us-news/al...ush-money/

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Church pastor guilty of rape and beating children

Rev James Haram, who had been with the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), was found guilty of 19 charges of physical and sexual abuse, including raping a woman and beating children.

His crimes took place between 1997 and 2020 at addresses in Glasgow, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire and in South Ayrshire.

The jury heard Haram raped, attacked and verbally abused the woman.

This included suggesting she should kill herself.

He also tracked her movements and forced her to take part in religious activities.

The victim recalled her "whole body going limp" while being choked by Haram.

Jurors heard the pastor would pressure her into sex while making biblical references.

The victim said she was told that she had to "subject" herself to him and recalled how she would sob as a result of the encounters.

The court also heard evidence of Haram's child abuse, with one girl recalling how she was regularly beaten by the pastor.

He also hit children with a wooden spoon or a rod and carried out "modesty checks" on girls to see what they were wearing.

Jurors heard he flew into a rage while in a car with two of the children and claimed that he would deliberately crash the vehicle, killing them all.

Haram told the trial: "They knew I did not mean it."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3lz3081y6o.amp

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Warren County pastor arrested on child sex charges, North Carolina SBI says

A warrant issued for 30-year-old Shelton Burkart alleged that on June 24, 2024, he “knowingly” possessed visual material of children, ages 8 to 12, naked in dressing rooms and engaging in sexual activity.

He’s been charged with five felony counts each of second degree- and third degree sexual exploitation of a minor.

According to the North Carolina SBI, Burkart is a pastor at Zion Global Methodist Church in Norlina.

Burkart is being held under a $300,000 bond. He did appear for the first time in court Tuesday, and had a bond review/modification hearing scheduled for Thursday.

https://www.wral.com/news/local/warren-c...olina-sbi/

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Irvington pastor arrested for alleged witness intimidation

MCSO said a former church member reported feeling intimidated after raising concerns about a registered sex offender holding a position at the church.

On June 30, John Penrod was arrested after authorities received a report from a church member that Penrod was participating in volunteer activities at the church where minors were present.

Deputies said Penrod was a registered sex offender and failed to notify authorities about his participation in the activities.

Authorities said other witnesses reported the loss of significant church roles and public removal by deputies, allegedly due to their cooperation with authorities.

Robert Wagley, the pastor of the church, was arrested on Thursday, Aug 14 and is charged with three counts of witness intimidation, according to jail records.

https://www.fox10tv.com/2025/08/15/local...imidation/

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Decades of disturbing clergy abuse at elite NJ Catholic school set to be exposed — and its former leader could be state’s next cardinal

Auxiliary Bishop Elias R. Lorenzo — a potential successor to Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who will reach the mandatory retirement age in May 2027 — served for three decades as a teacher and clergy leader at the all-boys Catholic school in Morristown.

During his time, at least 30 students came forward with sexual abuse allegations against Delbarton clergy, the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests said — some with lurid claims of being brutally abused hundreds of times by Benedictine monks.

Delbarton — a Benedictine Catholic middle and high school in tony Morristown where tuition is $48,725 a year — boasts a long list of famous alumni, including “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage, Yankees starting shortstop Anthony Volpe and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s sons.

But for the last decade and a half, the school has been in the news over sex abuse allegations against several clergy members at the school — including a former headmaster.

Most recently, a 2021 lawsuit filed by a former student claims that he was raped and abused more than 150 times by a trio of monks as a Delbarton seventh grader in the 1970s.

Survivors have long accused the school of waging a campaign to silence them.

Victim Tom Crane, whose lawsuit was settled in 2018, told the Daily Record that he endured a “nightmare of intimidation” after filing the suit claiming he and his brother were sexually abused by two Delbarton monks in the 1970s.

His attorney Gregory Gianforcaro, who currently represents 31 plaintiffs against Delbarton and nearly 50 victims total, said prosecutors are certain to include the school in the new grand jury investigation.

“I am confident that once the results of this investigation are public that there’s going to be a lot of information that will surface about the survivors,” Gianforcaro told The Post.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/nj...on-school/

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Is anyone still surprised at this sort of thing?