BLACK COLLAR CRIME
compiled by Bill Dunn
Arrested / Charged
David English Jr., 33, Joanna, SC: 2nd-degree
domestic violence and unlawful conduct
toward a child. English, pastor of New Hope
Baptist Church in Clinton, is accused of assaulting
his wife, Jennifer Bunting English, and of
being aware of her drug addiction and of taking
her to buy illegal drugs.
Bunting English, 31, is charged with kidnapping
and unlawful conduct toward a child for taking
a 2-month-old child she was babysitting to
her home and refusing to communicate with the
mother. The child was recovered 3 hours later.
Source: WYFf, 9-24-18
Franco Mulakkal, 54, Jalandhar, India:
Rape. Mulakkal, bishop of the Catholic Diocese
of Jalandhar, is accused of raping a Missionaries
of Jesus nun in her 40s at least 13 times in
2014-16. The Vatican relieved him of his duties
at his request.
The alleged victim filed a 114-page police
complaint in June and also accused Mulakkal
of sending her inappropriate text messages
and obscene photos. He denied the allegations
and said he’ll accept the death penalty if they’re
proven. India has about 27 million Christians,
about 2.3% of the population. Source: BBC/
Washington Post, 9-21-18
Gary Miller, 41, Springfield, IL: Forcible
rape and forcible sodomy. Miller was pastor in
2012 at Sycamore Baptist Church when his accuser
said she got a letter from an anonymous
sender that threatened harm against her loved
ones if she didn’t video herself having sex with
Miller. After she told Miller, they met and he allegedly
told her he didn’t want to have sex but
felt like he had no choice.
The woman eventually gave in and Miller
recorded the encounter, an affidavit said, and
he then tucked her into bed and prayed with
her. Police only recently became aware of the
alleged scheme while they were investigating
other abuse allegations against Miller. Source:
News-Leader, 9-19-18
James C. Landes, 28, Bryan, TX: Online
solicitation of a minor. Landes, junior high youth
minister at First United Methodist Church, is
charged with arranging to have sex with an undercover
officer he thought was a 14-year-old
girl. He allegedly agreed to meet at a public park
during a work break but later messaged the officer
that he couldn’t because of time constraints,
adding he would “make it up to you.” Source:
Bryan Eagle, 9-16-18
Shin Ok-ju, pastor of Grace Road Church,
and 3 senior church leaders were arrested in S.
Korea and charged with beating church members
in Korea and others who had relocated
with them in 2014 to Fiji to escape a predicted
famine. It’s also alleged she confiscated
passports, forced people to work without pay
and perform ritual beatings on each other on
so-called “threshing floors.” The church has
branches around the world, including in the U.S.
Videos show Shin calling members forward
during her sermons, hitting them on the
face and pulling and cutting their hair. In one
she tells a girl to slap a woman, believed to
be her mother, while saying “you’re hitting the
cheeks of the enemy.” The girl hits the woman
25 times. Later the woman is shown repeatedly
hitting the girl and pulling her hair. Source:
The Guardian, 9-16-18
José U. Rendon, 52, Nacogdoches, TX:
Continuous sexual abuse of a child. Rendon,
pastor at Iglesia Templo De Fe, is accused of
more than 50 assaults on a child in 2004-05.
Rendon had agreed to meet with investigators
but never showed up and is considered a fugitive
from justice. Source: Morning Telegraph, 9-13-18
Manuel La Rosa-Lopez, 60, Richmond, TX:
4 counts of indecency with a child. He’s accused
of offenses when he was pastor at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Conroe. A girl who attended the
parish school where he taught alleged in 2001 to
the Archdiocese of Houston-Galveston that La Rosa-Lopez
kissed her and touched her breasts in
April 2000 in the church kitchen after a rehearsal
for “The Passion of the Christ” play. He allegedly
told her they couldn’t have sex until she turned 16.
In August 2018, a 36-year-old man alleged
to the archdiocese that the priest molested him
when he was a high school student between
1998 and October 1999.
Daniel DiNardo, archbishop since 2006 and
now a cardinal, has come under fire recently.
The woman alleged DiNardo promised her
several years after she reported the abuse that
La Rosa-Lopez would be removed from any
contact with children but later found out he remained
in active ministry at St. John Fisher Parish,
about 70 miles away.
The man said he was told that reports
were filed with civil authorities but, according
to court documents, a police investigator
searched for those records and didn’t find any.
Source: KTRK, 8-12-18
Dmitri J. Daniels, 18, Miami Gardens,
FL: Sexual battery. Daniels, a parishioner and
youth volunteer at Mt. Pisgah Seventh-day
Adventist Church, allegedly assaulted a
5-year-old girl. “He had shown the victim in
this case pornographic materials and in essence
demonstrated or showed her what he
wanted her to do,” said police Capt. Al Xiques,
adding that Daniels “had the opportunity to be
around children on a regular basis.” Source:
CBS Miami, 9-11-18
Christian Ohazulume, 50, Dorchester,
MA: 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault
and battery of a child under 14. Ohazulume, a
Catholic priest and chaplain at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, is accused of assaulting
a girl when she was 7 or 8 in 2007 when he
lived with her family after coming from Nigeria.
Source: KTRK, 9-11-18
Kristina L. Casey, 48, Vermilion, OH:
3 counts of theft. Casey, treasurer at Saints
Peter and Paul Orthodox Church in Lorain,
is charged with writing about $80,000 worth
of unauthorized checks to herself. Source:
Morning Journal, 9-10-18
Sean E. Gaines, 43, Hampton, VA: 3
counts of indecent liberties with child by custodian
and 7 counts of carnal knowledge of a
child 13 to 15 years old. Gaines, pastor at Empowerment
Temple and former pastor at Rising
St. James Pentecostal Holiness Church,
allegedly took a girl who was living with his
family to a hotel to have sex. He’s married
with 2 children. The girl told police their relationship
started in May 2017 and ended in
February. Source: WAVY, 9-7-18
This is only about 10% of the total listings in the November 2018 issue of Freethought Today.
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