Feds accuse Virginia youth pastor of trading explicit pics with teen between calls with his wife
A 34-year-old youth pastor in Virginia is facing federal charges over allegations he posed as a teenage boy to exchange nude photos and videos with young girls, telling one of them last month that it was “time for her to see her first dick,” according to an FBI probable cause affidavit.
“I don’t know if im readyyyy im only 15 and I barely know anything abt that whole topiccc,” the girl responded.
Throughout the conversation, Jacob Ryan Barnett – who is known as Pastor Jake to parishioners – “repeatedly asked” the youngster for pictures of her crotch, the affidavit states.
On at least two occasions, it says Barnett messaged with the teen while speaking to his wife on the phone, at one point receiving a clip of the girl’s exposed genitalia she had filmed at the age of 14.
Barnett, the father of a two-year-old boy, was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday.
Barnett is the Associate Pastor of Students & Mobilization at the Catawba Valley Baptist Church. He previously served for five years as the head of the children’s ministry at the Bethel Baptist Church in Yorktown, Virginia.
“Jake felt the call to ministry when he was in middle school,” Barnett’s church bio reads.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...03754.html
Former pastor extradited from Georgia for child sex abuse charges in Maryland
There could be more victims after a former youth pastor at the Central Christian Church along Rossville Boulevard has been charged with 24 sex abuse counts for abusing six boys in Baltimore County.
Court papers say one victim told police that 52-year-old Thomas Pinkerton was a “father figure” to him “in a spiritual way,” meeting him when he was just 13 years old.
He said at one point, he began spending more time with Pinkerton, even spending the night at his Strawbridge Terrace home in Perry Hall.
The victim said it was there that he touched him inappropriately and, at one point, claimed when he kissed him, Pinkerton said that it was a “heavenly kiss” and that’s how Jesus would greet his disciples.
One of those victims told investigators he met Pinkerton when he was 16 and that he was like a “mentor” and “uncle” to him. He described the abuse that began as massages and later sex at Pinkerton’s home.
Court papers say Pinkerton told the victim that if he told anyone, it would “ruin everything.”
Another victim told police he tried to foster a father-son relationship with him and that the abuse happened multiple times at his church office.
https://www.wbal.com/pastor-extradited-f...n-maryland
N.C. pastor arrested on child sex crime charge in North Myrtle Beach
A North Carolina pastor is out of jail after he was arrested in a child sex crime investigation.
Kyle Lynn Sigmon is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
A police report shows that in July, a detective with the Boone Police Department notified North Myrtle Beach police about a sexual assault that occurred in July 2024.
Warrants state that Sigmon unlawfully touched a 13-year-old girl in her private area along South Ocean Boulevard during July 2024.
He is registered with the United Methodist Church as a pastor and online records show he remains active with the church.
https://www.wmbfnews.com/2025/08/07/nc-p...tle-beach/
A Claremore pastor who was filming under a woman's skirt has been arrested
A Claremore pastor accused of trying to film under a woman's skirt at a Hobby Lobby in Tulsa has been arrested.
Kendrick Oakley, 34, was booked into Rogers County Jail around 5 p.m.
FOX23 reached out to Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler’s office and asked why it took more than a year for the charges to be filed.
https://www.fox23.com/news/claremore-pas...78a26.html
A 34-year-old youth pastor in Virginia is facing federal charges over allegations he posed as a teenage boy to exchange nude photos and videos with young girls, telling one of them last month that it was “time for her to see her first dick,” according to an FBI probable cause affidavit.
“I don’t know if im readyyyy im only 15 and I barely know anything abt that whole topiccc,” the girl responded.
Throughout the conversation, Jacob Ryan Barnett – who is known as Pastor Jake to parishioners – “repeatedly asked” the youngster for pictures of her crotch, the affidavit states.
On at least two occasions, it says Barnett messaged with the teen while speaking to his wife on the phone, at one point receiving a clip of the girl’s exposed genitalia she had filmed at the age of 14.
Barnett, the father of a two-year-old boy, was arrested in North Carolina on Wednesday.
Barnett is the Associate Pastor of Students & Mobilization at the Catawba Valley Baptist Church. He previously served for five years as the head of the children’s ministry at the Bethel Baptist Church in Yorktown, Virginia.
“Jake felt the call to ministry when he was in middle school,” Barnett’s church bio reads.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...03754.html
Former pastor extradited from Georgia for child sex abuse charges in Maryland
There could be more victims after a former youth pastor at the Central Christian Church along Rossville Boulevard has been charged with 24 sex abuse counts for abusing six boys in Baltimore County.
Court papers say one victim told police that 52-year-old Thomas Pinkerton was a “father figure” to him “in a spiritual way,” meeting him when he was just 13 years old.
He said at one point, he began spending more time with Pinkerton, even spending the night at his Strawbridge Terrace home in Perry Hall.
The victim said it was there that he touched him inappropriately and, at one point, claimed when he kissed him, Pinkerton said that it was a “heavenly kiss” and that’s how Jesus would greet his disciples.
One of those victims told investigators he met Pinkerton when he was 16 and that he was like a “mentor” and “uncle” to him. He described the abuse that began as massages and later sex at Pinkerton’s home.
Court papers say Pinkerton told the victim that if he told anyone, it would “ruin everything.”
Another victim told police he tried to foster a father-son relationship with him and that the abuse happened multiple times at his church office.
https://www.wbal.com/pastor-extradited-f...n-maryland
N.C. pastor arrested on child sex crime charge in North Myrtle Beach
A North Carolina pastor is out of jail after he was arrested in a child sex crime investigation.
Kyle Lynn Sigmon is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
A police report shows that in July, a detective with the Boone Police Department notified North Myrtle Beach police about a sexual assault that occurred in July 2024.
Warrants state that Sigmon unlawfully touched a 13-year-old girl in her private area along South Ocean Boulevard during July 2024.
He is registered with the United Methodist Church as a pastor and online records show he remains active with the church.
https://www.wmbfnews.com/2025/08/07/nc-p...tle-beach/
A Claremore pastor who was filming under a woman's skirt has been arrested
A Claremore pastor accused of trying to film under a woman's skirt at a Hobby Lobby in Tulsa has been arrested.
Kendrick Oakley, 34, was booked into Rogers County Jail around 5 p.m.
FOX23 reached out to Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler’s office and asked why it took more than a year for the charges to be filed.
https://www.fox23.com/news/claremore-pas...78a26.html
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"
