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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.

914: Michael Paul Keech

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Michael Paul Keech was a youth pastor at Saluda River Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina. He began working there in 2019 and was fired in 2021 when a new pastor took over. Within two weeks of the new pastor taking over, Keech was fired. He said “there were some thing that were in the personnel file that I found to not being conducive of the personality and character of someone serving in the ministry. So we fired him.”

913: Trent Ivey 

Sexual Battery
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Trent Ivey was a Southern Baptist youth pastor at Vestal Baptist Church in South Knox, Tennessee. He was arrested in 2021 for sexual battery with a 16 and 18-year-old girl. He is out on bail and has a 2024 court date with deferred disposition which means he pled no contest, must meet certain obligations, and then there will be criminal conviction on his record.

912: Ryan Scott Walsh

Child Indecency, Sexual Battery, Solicitation of a Minor
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Ryan Scott Walsh was a youth pastor at Gulf Breeze Methodist Church in Florida. Parents of a 13-year-old girl found inappropriate texts on her phone. They went to the church pastor who chose to handle it internally at first, until the church learned Walsh had also touched the child. Then the church went to the police.