From Joe.My.God. -- This Week In Holy Crimes

This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days...

Florida: Pastor Shelly Hall arrested for stalking his replacement. It is his second stalking arrest.
Indiana: Pastor William Lee Porter charged with five felony counts of child seduction. Porter, 53, is his church's youth pastor.
New York: Rabbi Michoel Streicher sentenced to three years in prison for stealing $36K from a woman he told he would buy a rare Torah scroll.
Colorado: Pastor Bradley Boda sentenced to 20 years in prison for child molestation.
Florida: Pastor Jermel Manns arrested for sending sexually explicit text messages to a minor. Manns has a previous child molestation conviction.
Massachusetts: Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt charged with sexual assault on a child. Last year Levitt was charged with assaulting two other children.
New Mexico: Pastor Matthew Nichols charged with multiple counts of possessing and distributing child pornography.
France: Father Antoine Videau sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling $3M from his parish to fund casino trips to Vegas and Monte Carlo.
New York: Rabbi Ephraim Bryks resigns in face of child molestation accusations.
Louisiana: Pastors Jason Cooper and Victor Mitchell lose child molestation appeal after being convicted of having a three-way with a minor.
Texas: Father Robert Crisp placed on leave after numerous women and girls complain of inappropriate touching.
Ontario: Father William Marshall accused of molestation by three more students after his May arrest on the same charge.

This Week's Winner
Australia: Father John Sidney Denham has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after confessing to molesting 39 boys at a school where his abuses were so well known, students dropped out rather than suffer his "attentions." Authorities say that more victims probably have not come forward.