NH Pastor Loves Jesus, Collecting Images Of Child Sex Abuse
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Following a nearly six-year investigation, Pastor Stephen Bates of the Bible Baptist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire, was arrested this week on charges of possessing child pornography. He faces five charges of possession of child sexual abuse images, one each for the five images investigators found on flash drives he had in his pocket. More charges are expected as police continue searching his personal electronic devices.
The Nashua police first started investigating Bates in 2016 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children contacted them to let them know that someone with an IP address associated with the Bible Baptist Church had been accessing images of child sexual abuse. They were alerted again in 2017, but say they did not have enough information for an arrest at that time.
Over the last three years, the Bible Baptist Church IP address was associated with a number of Homeland Security child pornography investigations across the United States, including one involving an actual conversation Bates allegedly had with someone discussing their mutual interest in child rape.
Via NBC 10:
In 2019, as part of a Homeland Security investigation into the production and distribution of child sex abuse images in Denver, Colorado, the suspect in that case shared images with an unknown individual with an IP address associated with the Bible Baptist Church.
A year later, police in Tallahassee, Florida, investigating the publishing of child sexual abuse images on the internet discovered the account responsible for publishing the images used an IP address associated with the same New Hampshire church.
Again in 2021, a Homeland Security investigation into the sexual exploitation of a child in Blaine, Washington, found that the suspect in that case had communicated with an unknown individual through social media "about their shared interest in having sexual contact with children." Again, the IP address used by the unknown individual was associated with the Bible Baptist Church.
Over these years, Bates — knowing he was under investigation for possession of child pornography — continued to preach in his church about the sins of others and regularly interact with minors as a part of his job. The 46-year-old pastor is married with three daughters.
While the church's website has been offline since Pastor Bates's arrest, it is still available through the Wayback Machine. Sadly, videos of Pastor Bates's sermon series, featuring titles like "Behave Thyself: A Study of 1 Timothy," "A Divine Perspective on Marriage & Divorce, Remarriage & Singleness," "Prevailing Over Temptation," and "Abominations of the Catholic Church" are no longer available to watch on Vimeo.
What is available, however, is a PDF of the Bible Baptist Church's constitution. Would you like to see what it says about "Human Sexuality"?
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between one man and one woman. Furthermore, civil unions and homosexual marriages are nowhere taught nor endorsed in the Scriptures. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, pedophilia, transexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God's gift of sex to a husband and wife. We believe that any attempt to alter one's gender by surgery or appearance is unscriptural. We believe that the only Scriptural marriage is the joining of one man and one woman.
Bates is far from the first LGBTQ-hating religious leader to find himself in trouble for child predation. We all know the Catholic Church has had its share of issues, but they're not the only ones. The Baptist Accountability website currently features 482 pastors who have been convicted of abusing others, and the Houston Chronicle has a database of over 250 pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention alone who have been charged with sexual abuse.
Meanwhile, there are, as far as we know, literally zero examples of teachers being convicted of child sex abuse or child porn possession after reading "Heather Has Two Mommies" to their classrooms.
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When he talks to God, what does God say?
God doesn't listen to hypocrites and liars
child molestation is his calling, everything else he does is just a vocation.
probably nothing, since he impregnated a 12-14 year old girl in the middle east over 2000 years ago, according to his devotees anyway...
God's gift of sex to a husband and wife.
Oh crap now I'm in deep doodoo, I regifted it.
news like this loses shock value because it seems to happen every week. scratch 1 trump voter.
funny, I thought the subject was thumpers going old testament on kids and getting paid for it...
Unfortunately, there are a depressing number of articles I could keep adding but maybe you get the point by now. And this is just schoolteachers. Imagine all the other walks of life out there to pull from. It seems, though, that you're only interested when it involves someone who claims to be a Christian. And the impression that you give is that the pornography itself doesn't seem to bother you. Rather, the impression is that you're just happy to have more mud to sling at Christianity. The truth you seem to ignore in order to get your digs in is that child molesters can be found everywhere, in all walks of life.
Think I'm exaggerating? Look at your comment. Thumpers, not thumper. Plural. In other words, this is your view of Christians in general. You take what a few do and apply it to all. Do you have the same opinion of teachers, now that I've shown you that it's at least as common there as well? Are you going to going to start speaking degradingly of teachers? I just paused and typed "doctors and child pornography cases" into a search engine to see what would come up. Guess what?
Maybe you're right in your approach, though, and I should take my que from you. I should start speaking degradingly of those who do such things and are humanists and atheists. Start lumping everyone together like you do and make stereotypical generalizations and apply it to all of them.
dutiful deflection noted. do whatever the fuck you want. I don't consider in your face evangelical cultists anything close to being christian.
In light of the seeded article this is an interesting story
www.mediamatters.org /supreme-court/baseless-oan-attack-ketanji-brown-jackson-echoes-qanon-conspiracy-theory
Baseless OAN attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson echoes QAnon conspiracy theory
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KARA MCKINNEY (HOST): Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri made a deep dive into the judicial record of Team Biden's Supreme Court nominee. Yesterday, he tweeted his findings. Quote, “I've been researching the record of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, reading her opinions, articles, interviews and speeches. I've noticed an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson's treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children,” end quote. In 17 follow-up tweets, Hawley documented a pattern of light sentencing for child porn offenders, often against federal sentencing guidelines. For instance, Hawley pointed out, in the case of United States v. Stewart , the criminal possessed thousands of images of child porn and sought to travel across state lines to abuse a 9-year-old girl. The guidelines called for a sentence of eight to 10 years. Judge Jackson sentenced the criminal to less than five years. Joining us now to discuss is the deputy managing editor of RedState and host of RedState LIVE! , Brandon Morse. Thanks for being here tonight, Brandon.
BRANDON MORSE (DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, REDSTATE): Hey, thanks for having me.
MCKINNEY: Great. So, do you think that this is another story that will be totally ignored by the corporate media?
MORSE: Oh, absolutely. They have been doing their absolute best to try to eliminate any substantial talk about the pedophilia problem that is currently in the left and especially the radical left. They have been trying to make this almost a normal thing for some time. And if they come down hard on it, then it’ll reinforce the idea to society that pedophilia is a bad thing. And it is a very bad thing. It should be come down on hard. But they're not.
And I'm afraid that the reason that they're not doing this is because there's probably more pedophiles, or at least people who are friendly to pedophiles out there, than we might think in positions of power, especially on the left. You know, you had a ton of people suddenly go into hiding or shut up, you know, once Jeffrey Epstein was back in the spotlight for this. And it's scary to think that you have a lot of these leftists, these Democrats, politicians, activists, media figures who have been caught, or who have been trying to ease the pain of any of these pedophiles who are to be -- who should be suffering for their crimes. You see this a lot, lately.
And it's scary to think that this new judge that's come up here is one of these people who is going to be very kind to them. It’s scary to think. And you have to wonder why Joe Biden or any of the Democrats, whoever his handlers are, are wanting to put her in charge. She’s clearly got a very scary history when it comes to pedophilia, or at least handling people who are pedophiles. It's one more drop in the bucket when it comes to dealing with the left and their problem with pedophilia.
He will be on his knees in prison, but it won't be for praying.
Is that James Woods cousin?