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A Georgia pastor has been charged with false imprisonment after police found eight people locked in his homes basement, according to the Griffin Police Department. Curtis Keith Bankston and his wife, Sophia Simm-Bankston, were holding the eight as part of an unlicensed group home for people with disabilities, police said in a news release. Investigators say Curtis Bankston, 55,
identifies himself as pastor of a church known as One Step of Faith 2nd Chance.
The discovery was made Jan. 13, when the Griffin Fire Department and a team of EMTs responded to a report of someone having a seizure at a home on Valley Road in Griffin, officials said. The city is about 35 miles southeast of Atlanta. Personnel noticed the entry door to the basement was double keyed (dead bolted), and
access had to be gained by climbing through a basement window to reach the patient, police said.
Preliminary information indicated as many as eight individuals resided in the basement.
The home has been under lease for the past 14 months, and its basement was being used as a personal care home for the individuals, which essentially imprisoned them against their will, police said.
The eight individuals were identified as mentally and/or physically disabled.
Investigators called the arrangement an extreme hazard, because the eight would not be able to exit the basement in an emergency.
A search warrant found evidence the site was operated under the guise of One Step of Faith 2nd Chance church. The arrangement put the couple in control of the disabled individuals finances, medications and public benefits, police said. These individuals had been denied their medications and, in some cases, medical care, police said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pastor-had-8-people-locked-145340459.html
2naSalit
(86,323 posts)I think that's gonna be the end of that church.
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)blm
(113,010 posts)58Sunliner
(4,372 posts)harumph
(1,893 posts)I hope they die before they get to prison.
TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts)Sympthsical
(9,037 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(9,901 posts)Archae
(46,301 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Missn-Hitch
(1,383 posts)DFW
(54,282 posts)LetsGoBiden
(58 posts)That dude an those people are sick they need to be arrested and put under the jail God has nothing to do with that type of behavior no religion teaches their people to abuse the mentally ill and the old in fact the opposite this is aporant and makes me wanna throw up.