Pastor, 81, gets 10 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a girl in Moreno Valley
David Lee Helbling of Moreno Valley pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping to commit rape and lewd acts on a child under 14 years old under an agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped four related charges against Helbling.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Martinez, deputies were informed at the end of January 2024 of an attack on the victim in the 23000 block of Hemlock Avenue, near Pigeon Pass Road.
“In connection with the commission of the offenses, Helbling … kidnapped the victim, and the movement of the victim substantially increasedthe risk of harm,” according to the criminal complaint. “The defendant resided in the same home, and had recurring access (to her) with the intent of arousing, appealing to and gratifying (his) lust, passions and sexual desires.”
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2026/06/...no-valley/
Former Lexington pastor sentenced for rape and sexual abuse of minor
Zachary King, 48, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to several charges in March, including:
First-degree rape
First-degree sodomy
Procuring or promoting use of a minor in sexual activities
First-degree unlawful transaction with a minor
Third-degree rape
Third-degree sodomy
First-degree sex abuse
King, the former executive pastor at LexCity Church, was arrested in July 2024 for the abuse of a minor who attended the church.
According to court documents, King restrained the victim on one occasion and raped and sodomized her. He later contacted the victim for additional meetings where other assaults took place.
Under the terms of his plea agreement, King will have to register as a lifetime sex offender and was also ordered not to contact the victim.
https://www.wkyt.com/2026/06/04/former-l...use-minor/
Ex-youth pastor in Renton charged with child molestation
Derek Nelson, 53, was charged with second-degree child molestation after his arrest May 27 in Renton.
The victim said the incident happened at the Great Wolf Lodge in Centralia. According to documents, the victim said Nelson approached him while he was playing in a wave pool and asked him to follow the man into a changing room/bathroom. After locking the door, Nelson allegedly took off the victim’s swim trunks and touched the boy’s genitalia and buttocks. The victim said Nelson then picked up the boy by his ankles and held him upside down. The victim said Nelson told him he was “looking for zits.”
After the victim was released and put his swim trunks back on, Nelson then threatened the boy by telling him that he’d “pay the price” if he ever told anyone. Under the impression that Nelson would kill him, the victim held onto the information for 10 years, until he began therapy.
https://www.rentonreporter.com/2026/06/0...lestation/
Police uncover alleged child abuse, starvation, filth inside Fort Pierce pastor's home
A Fort Pierce pastor entrusted with protecting vulnerable children was arrested after police uncovered a deeply disturbing house of horrors.
Gwendolyn Denise Rolle, 59, faces five felony counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.
Rolle is a self-proclaimed pastor at New Hope International Church near Avenue D and North 13th Street—leaving neighbors too terrified of her community standing to speak out sooner—police say she treated five children she had taken in, including two who are non-verbal, with unimaginable cruelty.
She was forcing four of the children to routinely urinate and defecate in a blue-green bucket, which neighbors witnessed them dumping outside.
With no access to a working shower, the children had to bathe on the front porch with a garden hose and soap while their siblings held up a bedsheet to block the neighborhood view.
The systemic abuse extended to starvation and extreme favoritism; while Rolle's own child ate fast food, the five others were called "bastards," forced to share single packets of Ramen noodles, or sent to bed hungry.
https://cbs12.com/news/local/police-unco...oster-home
“A sexual predator wearing a priest collar”: Anthony Odiong gets life in prison for sexual assaults of parishioner
Jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court deliberated 90 minutes Tuesday before recommending that Judge Thomas West sentence the former charismatic spiritual adviser to life in prison and two 20-year prison terms, which Odiong will serve concurrently. They also returned fines totaling $30,000.
Jurors on Friday found Odiong guilty of one first-degree felony sexual assault count and two second-degree felony sexual assault counts.
The 57-year-old Odiong, a native Nigerian who served as a priest in Waco, West, Louisiana, Rome and Florida, must be given credit for serving at least 30 years in prison before he can seek parole.
Prosecutors Ryan Calvert and Liz Buice introduced evidence that nine women came forward with complaints that they were sexually assaulted or treated inappropriately sexually by Odiong while he served as their spiritual adviser.
They also proved Odiong is the father of a 3-year-old daughter whose mother was a parishioner of Odiong’s in Luling, La.
A former Waco woman testified she carried on a three-year sexual relationship with Odiong while he served at St. Peter Catholic Center on the Baylor University campus. Their sexual relationship ended after two of the woman’s children walked in on her and Odiong having sex in the woman’s bedroom.
https://www.kwtx.com/2026/06/01/sexual-p...rishioner/
David Lee Helbling of Moreno Valley pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping to commit rape and lewd acts on a child under 14 years old under an agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped four related charges against Helbling.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Martinez, deputies were informed at the end of January 2024 of an attack on the victim in the 23000 block of Hemlock Avenue, near Pigeon Pass Road.
“In connection with the commission of the offenses, Helbling … kidnapped the victim, and the movement of the victim substantially increasedthe risk of harm,” according to the criminal complaint. “The defendant resided in the same home, and had recurring access (to her) with the intent of arousing, appealing to and gratifying (his) lust, passions and sexual desires.”
https://www.pressenterprise.com/2026/06/...no-valley/
Former Lexington pastor sentenced for rape and sexual abuse of minor
Zachary King, 48, was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to several charges in March, including:
First-degree rape
First-degree sodomy
Procuring or promoting use of a minor in sexual activities
First-degree unlawful transaction with a minor
Third-degree rape
Third-degree sodomy
First-degree sex abuse
King, the former executive pastor at LexCity Church, was arrested in July 2024 for the abuse of a minor who attended the church.
According to court documents, King restrained the victim on one occasion and raped and sodomized her. He later contacted the victim for additional meetings where other assaults took place.
Under the terms of his plea agreement, King will have to register as a lifetime sex offender and was also ordered not to contact the victim.
https://www.wkyt.com/2026/06/04/former-l...use-minor/
Ex-youth pastor in Renton charged with child molestation
Derek Nelson, 53, was charged with second-degree child molestation after his arrest May 27 in Renton.
The victim said the incident happened at the Great Wolf Lodge in Centralia. According to documents, the victim said Nelson approached him while he was playing in a wave pool and asked him to follow the man into a changing room/bathroom. After locking the door, Nelson allegedly took off the victim’s swim trunks and touched the boy’s genitalia and buttocks. The victim said Nelson then picked up the boy by his ankles and held him upside down. The victim said Nelson told him he was “looking for zits.”
After the victim was released and put his swim trunks back on, Nelson then threatened the boy by telling him that he’d “pay the price” if he ever told anyone. Under the impression that Nelson would kill him, the victim held onto the information for 10 years, until he began therapy.
https://www.rentonreporter.com/2026/06/0...lestation/
Police uncover alleged child abuse, starvation, filth inside Fort Pierce pastor's home
A Fort Pierce pastor entrusted with protecting vulnerable children was arrested after police uncovered a deeply disturbing house of horrors.
Gwendolyn Denise Rolle, 59, faces five felony counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.
Rolle is a self-proclaimed pastor at New Hope International Church near Avenue D and North 13th Street—leaving neighbors too terrified of her community standing to speak out sooner—police say she treated five children she had taken in, including two who are non-verbal, with unimaginable cruelty.
She was forcing four of the children to routinely urinate and defecate in a blue-green bucket, which neighbors witnessed them dumping outside.
With no access to a working shower, the children had to bathe on the front porch with a garden hose and soap while their siblings held up a bedsheet to block the neighborhood view.
The systemic abuse extended to starvation and extreme favoritism; while Rolle's own child ate fast food, the five others were called "bastards," forced to share single packets of Ramen noodles, or sent to bed hungry.
https://cbs12.com/news/local/police-unco...oster-home
“A sexual predator wearing a priest collar”: Anthony Odiong gets life in prison for sexual assaults of parishioner
Jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court deliberated 90 minutes Tuesday before recommending that Judge Thomas West sentence the former charismatic spiritual adviser to life in prison and two 20-year prison terms, which Odiong will serve concurrently. They also returned fines totaling $30,000.
Jurors on Friday found Odiong guilty of one first-degree felony sexual assault count and two second-degree felony sexual assault counts.
The 57-year-old Odiong, a native Nigerian who served as a priest in Waco, West, Louisiana, Rome and Florida, must be given credit for serving at least 30 years in prison before he can seek parole.
Prosecutors Ryan Calvert and Liz Buice introduced evidence that nine women came forward with complaints that they were sexually assaulted or treated inappropriately sexually by Odiong while he served as their spiritual adviser.
They also proved Odiong is the father of a 3-year-old daughter whose mother was a parishioner of Odiong’s in Luling, La.
A former Waco woman testified she carried on a three-year sexual relationship with Odiong while he served at St. Peter Catholic Center on the Baylor University campus. Their sexual relationship ended after two of the woman’s children walked in on her and Odiong having sex in the woman’s bedroom.
https://www.kwtx.com/2026/06/01/sexual-p...rishioner/
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"
