SC priest sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison
A South Carolina priest who served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison.
Jamie Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias, 68, pleaded guilty on Aug. 10 to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity at the federal courthouse in Columbia.
He took the boy on a trip to Florida, where he molested the boy, according to Assistant United States Attorney Elliott Daniels.
The priest admitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigations that the child was abused in both Florida and South Carolina.
Gonzalez-Farias was also charged with aggravated sexual abuse of children and coercion of a minor, but those charges were dropped in a plea agreement.
Court filings show the priest had given the boy nicknames, showered with him, shared pornography with him and told the boy he loved him.
https://www.wmbfnews.com/2024/02/08/sc-p...al-prison/
A South Carolina priest who served in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison.
Jamie Adolfo Gonzalez-Farias, 68, pleaded guilty on Aug. 10 to transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity at the federal courthouse in Columbia.
He took the boy on a trip to Florida, where he molested the boy, according to Assistant United States Attorney Elliott Daniels.
The priest admitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigations that the child was abused in both Florida and South Carolina.
Gonzalez-Farias was also charged with aggravated sexual abuse of children and coercion of a minor, but those charges were dropped in a plea agreement.
Court filings show the priest had given the boy nicknames, showered with him, shared pornography with him and told the boy he loved him.
https://www.wmbfnews.com/2024/02/08/sc-p...al-prison/
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"
