'It's heartbreaking': Pastor accused of exposing himself, sending explicit photos to teen
A Northern Virginia pastor who traveled widely to preach is now accused of sending explicit images to a teenager he met at church in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Police said Kenneth Baldwin, an Alexandria resident and pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church in Bailey's Crossroads, gave a sermon at a church in Pennsylvania in November 2024 and exchanged phone numbers with a boy who was 15 at the time.
Baldwin later began sending sexually explicit images of himself multiple times a week for about a year, then sent several more pictures in recent weeks.
Pennsylvania State Police questioned Baldwin and said he admitted exposing himself to the victim on three separate occasions in three separate states. Authorities also said Baldwin admitted sending nude images of himself to the boy.
“In a world where there's so much dishonesty, the church is supposed to be the place where the most honest is at. And, something like this is just, it's repulsive is what it is," said Evangelist D.R. Harrison, who met Baldwin years ago through ministry work.
A Northern Virginia pastor who traveled widely to preach is now accused of sending explicit images to a teenager he met at church in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State Police said Kenneth Baldwin, an Alexandria resident and pastor at Crossroads Baptist Church in Bailey's Crossroads, gave a sermon at a church in Pennsylvania in November 2024 and exchanged phone numbers with a boy who was 15 at the time.
Baldwin later began sending sexually explicit images of himself multiple times a week for about a year, then sent several more pictures in recent weeks.
Pennsylvania State Police questioned Baldwin and said he admitted exposing himself to the victim on three separate occasions in three separate states. Authorities also said Baldwin admitted sending nude images of himself to the boy.
“In a world where there's so much dishonesty, the church is supposed to be the place where the most honest is at. And, something like this is just, it's repulsive is what it is," said Evangelist D.R. Harrison, who met Baldwin years ago through ministry work.
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"
