RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
November 9, 2023 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2023 at 6:04 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Man pardoned by Trump accused of covering up years of pedophilia at Christian treatment facility
The suit says the camp’s director of social services, Emmett Presley, engaged in “innumerable” incidents of fondling of genitals and oral rape.” and added that “Men and women who owned, operated, and staffed the facility preyed on and abused the children housed on the remote facility in Warm Springs, AR. routinely and systematically.”
The complaint includes several counts of negligent supervision and retention, sexual battery, and Title IX violations. And, because some residents were picked up from their home state and driven to The Lord’s Ranch by staff who likely knew they were going to be abused, the plaintiffs are suing under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
This is not the first time Suhl has been in legal jeopardy. In 2016, he was convicted of paying up to $20,000 in cash bribes over four years to a state health official to increase Medicaid payments to his facility. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
In 2019, he was released after Trump commuted his sentence to time served — after ex-Governor Mike Huckabee lobbied on Suhl’s behalf. This is not the first time Huckabee has been closely associated with child molesters. In 2016, prominent Christian author John Perry, who co-wrote Huckabee’s book “Character Makes a Difference,” was accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits.
To fill out his dance card, Perry also co-authored a book with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, “So Help Me God.” Moore was also accused of sexual abuse of minors, by four women. Yet in 2018, he received Trump’s endorsement in his losing campaign for Senate.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11...t-facility
The suit says the camp’s director of social services, Emmett Presley, engaged in “innumerable” incidents of fondling of genitals and oral rape.” and added that “Men and women who owned, operated, and staffed the facility preyed on and abused the children housed on the remote facility in Warm Springs, AR. routinely and systematically.”
The complaint includes several counts of negligent supervision and retention, sexual battery, and Title IX violations. And, because some residents were picked up from their home state and driven to The Lord’s Ranch by staff who likely knew they were going to be abused, the plaintiffs are suing under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.
This is not the first time Suhl has been in legal jeopardy. In 2016, he was convicted of paying up to $20,000 in cash bribes over four years to a state health official to increase Medicaid payments to his facility. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
In 2019, he was released after Trump commuted his sentence to time served — after ex-Governor Mike Huckabee lobbied on Suhl’s behalf. This is not the first time Huckabee has been closely associated with child molesters. In 2016, prominent Christian author John Perry, who co-wrote Huckabee’s book “Character Makes a Difference,” was accused of child molestation in two separate lawsuits.
To fill out his dance card, Perry also co-authored a book with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, “So Help Me God.” Moore was also accused of sexual abuse of minors, by four women. Yet in 2018, he received Trump’s endorsement in his losing campaign for Senate.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11...t-facility
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
