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Month: May 2023

924: Ronnie Lee Barron

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Battery
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Ronnie Lee Barron was the youth pastor at Loris Presbyterian Church, in Loris, South Carolina. He was also volunteer baseball coach at the high school. He was arrested in December 2021, accused of sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual battery. The minor was a student at Loris High School and 17 years old. Barron sexually abused the youth several times from March to June 2021. He also took nude photos and made a video of a sex act with the youth.

923: Joshua Burton Henley

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Abuse
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He came back to Tennessee in June, 2021, to bring a young girl from his old church to assist at his new one. It was a ploy and he sexually assaulted her. He was arrested on the road back to Tennessee. The police then found child sexual abuse material on his phone as well as conversations with two other Tennessee teens. When interviewed, they confirmed he had sexually abused them as well.

922: Robert Fenton

Child Molestation, Grooming
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Robert Fenton was the youth pastor at Abide In the Vine church in Owego, New York, when he told a couple he was drawn to their daughter and wanted to marry her. Her family lived in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, just over the state line from Owego. She was fourteen. The parents approved, church leaders approved, and the courtship began. She was pulled out of school and homeschooled which gave Fenton private time with her. He began sexually abusing her.

921: Dustin Colony-Herrera

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse
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Dustin Colony-Herrera was the youth pastor at Yucaipa Christian Church in San Bernadino County, California back in 2004 when the first allegations of child sexual abuse were made. Meanwhile, he lived over the county line in Riverside County where some of the abuse is said to have occurred. So, some of the abuse was reported in one county and some in another and due to that, investigators had no idea of the scope of his abuse. To make things worse, when they began investigating, he moved to Medford, Oregon, and didn’t show up for his court date.

920: Peter Bass

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Peter Bass was youth pastor at Brooks Assembly of God. Brooks is an unincorporated community north of Salem, Oregon. He was accused of repeatedly raping an underage girl. The police said he did not know her through church.

He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 33 years in prison plus 46 years and 8 months of post-prison supervision and registry as a sex offended.

918: Sean M. Higgins

Child Endangerment, Coercion, Solicitation of a Minor, Stalking/Harassment
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Sean M. Higgins was the youth pastor and music leader at Harbor Baptist Church in Hainesport, New Jersey. While he was youth pastor, he adopted the persona of a teenage girl named Julie Miller. As Julie Miller, he persuaded teen boys to send nude pics which he then used to coerce the boys to do…

917: Michael D’Attoma

Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Battery
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Michael D’Attoma was named in a lawsuit alleging he sexually abused Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. The lawsuit also names Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and the Northside Baptist Church because, incredibly, D’Attoma continued as pastor at the Northside Baptist Church for six more years after the abuse was reported in 2014.

916: Sean Patrick Masopust

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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Sean Patrick Masopust was a youth pastor at Northridge Church, an Evangelical church in Owatanna, Minnesota where his father-in-law was pastor. He pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. He was 33 and she was 17, making any romantic or sexual relationship, especially under his authority as youth pastor, a criminal act.

915: Thomas James Brackett

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misconduct
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Thomas James Brackett was a youth pastor at Tabernacle Christian Church in Baltimore County, Maryland, back in the Eighties. That is when he is alleged to have sexually abused two minors in his pastoral care. They were eight and ten at the time. He was twenty-one or twenty-two.