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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 04:56 PM Sep 2016

Youth Pastor Rapes Teen Girl And Church Demands She Apologize To Her Rapist’s Wife

Nope, not The Onion. No, sirree!

http://addictinginfo.org/2016/09/09/youth-pastor-rapes-teen-girl-and-church-demands-she-apologize-to-her-rapists-wife/

Columbia Road Baptist Church in North Olmsted actually banned a teenage girl and her family from attending services until she apologizes to the wife of the man who sexually abused her.

Youth pastor Brian Mitchell had a wife and three kids, but that didn’t stop him from targeting a 16-year-old girl who was simply seeking spiritual guidance at the church....

What’s also delusional is that the Columbia Road Baptist Church actually thinks the teenage girl their employee raped somehow owes Mitchell’s wife an apology.

During testimony, the girl’s mother revealed that the church basically blamed her daughter for the whole situation and told them not to come back to the church until an apology has been made. Rather than comply with the ridiculous demand, the family just stopped attending church altogether.


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Youth Pastor Rapes Teen Girl And Church Demands She Apologize To Her Rapist’s Wife (Original Post) KamaAina Sep 2016 OP
She should file charges against the jerk! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2016 #1
He got 10 years in prison. LisaL Sep 2016 #2
Excellent!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2016 #3
Yet the church apparently believes a victim should be apologizing. LisaL Sep 2016 #5
Amazing, isn't it! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2016 #10
Good Liberal_in_LA Sep 2016 #4
Perhaps Sherman A1 Sep 2016 #14
Should have been 20. Abuse of fairy dust power is worse. nt. JanMichael Sep 2016 #17
Sounds like the church is setting itself up for a big judgement exboyfil Sep 2016 #6
Why would they want to return to that church malaise Sep 2016 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author MichiganVote Sep 2016 #8
sounds like much the same attitude as in the 'hard line' Islamic groups that are reported on Bill USA Sep 2016 #9
Christian Taliban. N/t roamer65 Sep 2016 #16
"... The girl's mother said in court that church officials told her their family couldn't return struggle4progress Sep 2016 #11
Fuck these people and their values. Initech Sep 2016 #12
It is sad he only got 10 years in prison, it should have been 100. Rex Sep 2016 #13
Well obviously the girl was at fault. MicaelS Sep 2016 #15
"Man of God", more like man of Satan. Odin2005 Sep 2016 #18
I love my atheism madokie Sep 2016 #19
Wow. People are really fucked up. This victim blaming needs to stop. AgadorSparticus Sep 2016 #20
Sick, just sick! smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #21

Response to KamaAina (Original post)

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
11. "... The girl's mother said in court that church officials told her their family couldn't return
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 05:58 PM
Sep 2016

to the church until she apologized to Mitchell's wife ... The family has since left the church ..."
'Extremely delusional' North Olmsted youth pastor sentenced for sexual relationship with teen
By Adam Ferrise
on September 08, 2016 at 5:34 PM
updated September 09, 2016 at 3:16 PM

Initech

(99,915 posts)
12. Fuck these people and their values.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 06:08 PM
Sep 2016

If that's what that religion teaches, I want no part of it. That pastor should get his ass handed to him.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
15. Well obviously the girl was at fault.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 06:26 PM
Sep 2016

She was just a 16 year old Jezebel who seduced this upright man of God, and deliberately made his poor wife look bad. I'm sure her mother was a Jezebel, too.



Some of these people need to re-read their bibles.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
19. I love my atheism
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 08:39 AM
Sep 2016

I don't' have anyone or anything to blame my mis deeds on so I have to live like I want to think we all should have to live, honestly.

Many of the religious people I know do some kind of shit but they find a way to justify it in their bible. I don't have that excuse or that crutch. And I like it that way.

Keeps me honest and lets me sleep at night

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