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864: David Wayne Pendley

Child Molestation

David Wayne Pendley was a teacher at Faith Lutheran, a religious private school in Las Vegas, Nevada. A senior at the school went to the police and reported he sexually assaulted her several times. He invited her on a mission trip to Mexico where he became inappropriately personal. He told her he loved her.

Back in school, he asked her to dog sit while he and his wife went out of town. When she went to his house, he was alone and he raped her. His abuse continued for six months and he reacted with anger when she said she did not like it. He told her that his heart was connected to his penis, that god made him that way, that no one would believe, etc.

863: Mark Curtis Adams

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor

Mark Curtis Adams was a Sunday School teacher and church deacon at Oak Grove Baptist Church in Mount Carmel, South Carolina. He also used the social media app KIK to entice minor children and produce child sexual abuse material. He pretended to be a 17-year-old boy online and engaged in enticement of an 11-year-old girl. Her mother discovered his communications with her and went to police. He was arrested in June 2017. In May, 2018, he pled guilty to the enticement charge and was sentenced to ten years plus 15 years of supervised release.

862: John W. Adams

Child Sexual Abuse Material

John W. Adams was the pastor at the anti-gay Calvary Freewill Baptist Church in Darbydale, Ohio. In 2007, he was arrested by police at his home for downloading child sexual abuse material. He was caught because police were monitoring a CSAM website. A year later, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation with no internet access and having to register as a sex offender.