Pastor, Mayor, Internet Predator... look what religion gets you.
From the anals of, "religion makes you a better person" I bring you todays most loving Pastor...
DIAMOND, Mo. -- A small-town mayor and pastor charged with enticing a child over the Internet called the investigating detective at home and asked him to stop the case.
Police Detective Jim Murray played a tape of the Wednesday phone call from Allen Kauffman, 63, to The Associated Press.
On the tape, Kauffman says he is begging for mercy and asks the detective to make the case go away.
At one point, Kauffman asks if the detective could "just take" the hard drive seized from Kauffman's home computer and not do anything with the evidence.
Kauffman, reached at home, confirmed to the AP that he had made the phone call but denied he was asking the detective to destroy evidence.
Kauffman was arrested Friday on four counts of felony enticement of a child in a sting orchestrated by Murray, who was posing online as a teenager from another southwest Missouri town. Kauffman is free on $50,000 bond.
Prosecutors alleged in court filings that Kauffman believed he was communicating with a 13-year-old girl from the Joplin area in a Yahoo chat room last November and December. In online messages, Kauffman allegedly asked the girl for sex and for nude pictures and encouraged her to have sex with a girlfriend in front of a webcam so Kauffman could watch.
Missouri law allows recording of a phone conversation between two parties within the state as long as at least one of the callers knows about and consents to the recording, Kansas City media attorney Jean Maneke said. Murray said he did not tell Kauffman he was taping the call but was not required to under that law.
In his call to Murray, Kauffman said his wife had told him, "Honey, my love is stronger than this," apparently referring to the criminal charges.
"I guarantee, I guarantee you, that I will never have that (chat) program on my computer again as long as I live," Kauffman told the detective.
"I'm a sap, I'm too nice a guy. I'm giving Bob what I consider to be some real nice access to my channels. I put him on for an hour, and what happens when you're a nice guy, you get stepped on. I'm a little too loose with people criticizing me because it's interesting." - Howard Stern
Funny how this claimed
Funny how this claimed being cant or wont protect kids and on top of that allows "official cheerleaders" of his club to do such things.
If " all loving" is the claimant's given atribute of such a bieng, I dont see it. I would never hire a baby sitter who allowed such things to happen to baby sit my kid(if I had one).
If oil flowed like deity claims gas would cost 10 cents a gallon.
Why are people so surprised?
Why are people so surprised? "holy" people taking advantage of children has become the status quo hasn't it?
Gee, I can't wait for the
Gee, I can't wait for the debate:
T: Yeah, but this doesn't prove anything. This guy was sick. Religion didn't make him do it.
A: Um, actually, there is a very strong, undeniable correlation between theism and sexual crime (cites sources)
T: Yeah, but this doesn't prove anything. That's not causation, it's correlation.
A: Yeah. It's correlation. There is a correlation between believing in invisible dictators and being fucked up.
T: Yeah, but you're just like Theists. You're trying to force your beliefs on people.
A: Huh? What were we talking about again?
T: My god's penis is bigger than your brain! NANNER NAAA!!!
Never Mind, trust to chance -- keep a sharp look out -- There is many a happy slave.
--Charles Darwin, on whether or not he ought to marry.
There's a strong
There's a strong correlation between any group of young folks and predators. Take a look at the statistics for educators and you'll be quite surprised at the danger your children are in attending a secular, public school.
The funny thing about "predators" is that they tend to congregate where the "prey" is.
"With its enduring appeal to the search for truth, philosophy has the great responsibility of forming thought and culture; and now it must strive resolutely to recover its original vocation." Pope John Paul II
totus_tuus wrote:
Agreed.
Some theistic predators get protection from their churches (no screening, relocation, etc).
All theistic predators get the protection of God:
1. Practice pedophilia
2. Ask God for his forgiveness
3. go to 1
This isn't just your brand of theism TT - I've seen it on other churches as well.
I'm waiting for some busted child molester to claim his pedophilia is his "thorn in the flesh".
jcgadfly wrote: totus_tuus
Yep, yep and yep.
You will also find a lot of pedophiles around boy scouts or any other youth-oriented organization.
Another thing: pedophiles know it's easier to prey on children who are taught to always obey their elders no matter what. Abrahamic religions fit that scenario to a T.
Kenneth Parnell, the man who abducted Steven Stayner, chose Steven because his parents were strict Mormons. He knew that Steven had just got a whipping from his father for not coming home straight after school. He lured Steven into his car by pretending to be a preacher.
(Incidentally, the Stayner family appears to have been totally fucked up. It's tragic what happened to Steven, but things weren't all that rosy on the home front. Del Stayner's daughters have accused him of sexually molesting them and son Cary turned into a serial killer. Gotta love that Mormon magic underwear.)
I've seen this MO many times in cases of pedophilia and child abduction, including in my own life.
My best friend is a psychologist and he has told me repeatedly to stay away from any group that is geared toward helping abused women / adult children of abusers, etc. Abusers seek out these groups on purpose because they know those in attendance are vulnerable. The abused tend to consistently choose association with abusers because it's all they know...or perhaps they subconsciously need to act out the abuse over and over in an attempt to get a handle on it and put it behind them.
Hmmm...I'd better stop. I'm not a psychologist so I really don't have a professional say on the matter.
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