This Week's Winner

Over the last seven days... Colorado : Pastor Joshua Amoroso charged with sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl. Germany : Report implicates more than 250 priests and staffers in child abuse scandal at school in archdiocese once headed by the Pope. Kentucky : Pastor Currie Pat Clark charged with 296 counts of sodomy of a 12 year-old boy. Georgia : Pastor Brian Richard Gray charged with 58 counts of child molestation, statutory rape, and sexual assault of a 15 year-old girl. New Jersey : Newspaper reveals documents proving Archbishop John Myers shielded at least four pedophile priests from prosecution. Michigan : Pastor Curtis Burkhardt charged with exposed his erection to an 11 year-old girl at a campground. Burkhardt has a previous conviction for the same crime with a 3 year-old. Australia : Father Brian Spillane found guilty on nine counts of molesting preteen girls. Spillane faces four more trials on 135 similar charges. Oklahoma : Pastor Baron Hopgood charged with fraud in $200K check-kiting scheme. Ontario : Father William Marshall charged with two counts of sexual assault. Marshall faces similar charges in several other cases. Ohio : Pastor David Thompson sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling more than $1M from his church. Britain : Father John Shannon convicted on 16 counts of producing child pornography. Texas : Pastor Terry Nesmith on trial for molesting 9 year-old girl. Australia : Father Kevin Philips pleads guilty to multiple counts of child molestation. New York : An unnamed Hasidic rabbi and his son have fled to Israel after being accused of sexually molesting at least four underage female relatives. At least two of the alleged victims are the rabbi's daughters, one of whom says her father has been molesting her since the age of five. Two of the rabbi's other sons were arrested in New York and charged with the sexual abuse and rape of their sisters. One of the arrested sons, age 15, is accused of molesting his 8 year-old sister. Police note that the rabbi and the escaped son were driven to the driven to the airport by the rabbi's wife, who is his first cousin. The two have fourteen children and all names are being withheld to protect the victims.

Labels: child abuse, molestation, religion, This Week In Holy Crimes