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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Rape The Gay Away" Pastor Won't Serve Time
Iowa pastor and youth counselor Brent Girouex, who claimed with a straight face that he was trying to cure teenage boys of their homosexual urges by having sex with them, has had his sentence reduced from 17 years in prison to sex offender treatment and probation.Since Girouex confessed to having sex with four underage boys, eight additional young men have come forward saying they were sexually violated by the 31-year-old pastor. Girouex, who is not longer a pastor at the Victory Fellowship Church, believed that he could rape away the gay by praying while he had sexual contact with the boys, all in an effort to keep them sexually pure for God.
According to reports, he told police that when they would ejaculate, they would be getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind.
Girouex, a married father of four, has had a fair share of backlash since he publicly made his disturbing practices known. One of his most ardent opponents is his wife Erin, who has spoken out against both him and the reduced sentence he received after the initial 17 years he was to serve in prison.
I dont want [my children] anywhere near him, Erin Girouex said to KCII local news. She stated that she has plans for divorce, but that her husbands wanting to see their kids has complicated matters. Currently, he has a court-ordered, twice-per-month visitation schedule, where he must be supervised by his own mother.
While the claim of raping in order to make the victim sexually pure is novel, rapists having their sentences reduced to virtually nothing is not. Girouexs drastic sentence reduction follows closely behind the heels of the actions of a Montana judge, who sentenced a convicted rapist to serve just 30 days in jail, and made comments about how his 14-year-old victim was an active participant in the sexual relationship. The victim, a girl in this case, subsequently committed suicide, and the judge apologized for his remarks, but left the light sentence in place.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/13/notorious_abusing_pastor_wont_serve_time_pastor_partner/
Probation?
Who are these idiots who think a light slap on the wrist is enough for this kind of behavior? They are deviant in their own ways.
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"Rape The Gay Away" Pastor Won't Serve Time (Original Post)
Are_grits_groceries
Sep 2013
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snooper2
(30,151 posts)1. Has anyone verified this story as true or false yet?
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)3. 8 victims are not enough for you? nt
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)2. that's so unjust
can't believe it.
cali
(114,904 posts)4. my disgust knows no bounds.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. pedophiles are always good at networking: e.g., Sandusky and Savile started with nothing
and built up an empire of execs, pols, school and county officers, etc., etc., that operated under total omertà for several decades: we only knew about them due to very contingent circumstances