This Week's Winner

Over the last seven days... Virginia : Pastor Jason Bolton charged with stalking an underage girl. He has a previous arrest for statutory rape. New York : Rabbi Nechemya Weberman arrested for molestation of 12 year-old girl. Georgia : Pastor Albert Turnell charged with possession and distribution of child porn. Alabama : Pastor Michael Wilkerson charged with writing a bad check to purchase $111K Mercedes. He previously served time in prison for defrauding the builders of his mansion. Scotland : Sihk priest Surinder Singh convicted of child molestation. Wisconsin : Father Thomas Marr sentenced to only nine months in jail for stealing over $600K from parishioners. California : Christian college sued for knowingly placing a convicted child molester ministry student with a family whose children he then molested. North Carolina : Pastor Greg Metcalf charged with assaulting his daughter and then denying her medical care. Massachusetts : Father Franklin E. Huntress resigns in face of numerous molestation accusations. Britain : Pastor Albert Odulele charged with indecent sexual assault on a child. Arkansas : Pastor Shane Montgomery sentenced to one year in prison for sexual assault on a teenager. Tennessee : Father William Casey to stand trial for child molestation. California : Pastor Alonzo McGowan pleads guilty to stealing over $400K from an 87 year-old parishioner. Ohio : Pastor Daniel Monk sentenced to six years in prison for sexual battery on an underage girl. Monk says he was out of his mind because he'd been fasting. New York : Father Richard Nachajski charged with stealing $476K from his parish to finance luxury vacations to the Caribbean and Thailand. Illinois : The Belleville Diocese of Southern Illinois is appealing a $5M molestation judgment, saying that they have zero responsibility to warn parishioners about known pedophile priests. In response, a local group of Catholic priests took the unprecedented step of denouncing the appeal as a "disastrous policy" that makes "no common moral sense." The judgment was ordered in the case of Father Raymond Kownacki, who has been sued numerous times for molestation, but has never been arrested due to the statute of limitations.

Labels: Catholic Church, child abuse, molestation, rape, religion, scam artists, This Week In Holy Crimes