The alleged abuse occurred from 2006 to 2010 at the pastor’s home and at an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County, Maryland, authorities said.
Thomas Pinkerton Jr. used to tell children in his youth group in Maryland that it was normal for a pastor to kiss boys on the lips, because that’s how Jesus greeted his disciples, according to an arrest warrant made public last week.
Kissing was just the beginning, several men from Pinkerton’s former youth group told police.
Pinkerton, 52, a youth minister known as Pastor Tommy, is being held without bond following accusations that he sexually abused six teens from 2006 to 2010 while working at Central Christian Church, an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County. He was extradited from his home state of Georgia to Maryland last Wednesday to face 24 felony and misdemeanor counts in Baltimore County. His attorney, Justin Hollimon, said he pleaded not guilty.
Stiiiiiiiil not a drag queen
Or a migrant
Or an ice cream salesman
Or a transgender person using the appropriate toilet.
Religious institutions must be like pre-chloroformed honeypots for vile people looking to abuse others. “Oh Jesus also liked to sword fight with his penis? Right on — let’s go, then.”
For fucks sake, people… How transparent does it need to be? It’s a system of control like any other, but the controlled think they’re “following Christ”.
You want to protect your kids? Keep them the fuck away from religion and the religious.
The fact that these religious institutions cover up the sex abuse because they don’t wanna lose any offerings in that collection plate is a whole other level of fucked up.
At this point I don’t understand how there are still parents who leave their kids alone with members of any church, or republicans.
Like, “not all priests…” doesn’t mean anything, you still won’t take the fucking risk, right?
Never forget to post from the guy who said he would rather leave her child with a pedophile than an atheist
It’s always the ones you most suspect.
Reminder: not a democrat, not a trans athlete, not a member of the LGBTQ community, not a drag queen, not an immigrant.
Absurdly, we all finance these pedophiles, their very favorite place to conceal themselves is the church/temple/mosque, and these are all tax free.
And now they can openly campaign, it’s getting worse, not better.
I’ve seen him perform! Stage name is Miranda Warning. Oh that’s right, never mind, still not a drag queen.
Not a drag queen tho?
Huh interesting, not a trans or a drag queen, but in fact yet another white Christian male.
Republicans for child rape!
Another drag… Oh its a christian? How original. /s
Pinkerton, who has worked as a traveling evangelist in recent years, was “completely shocked” by the charges, his attorney said Monday.
I agree. I’ve never heard of anyone within the christian movement abusing their power to sexually exploit children. That has never happened, ever. Not once. Nada. Nope.
This isn’t news.
Isn’t it ironic that the “let’s protect the children” crowd allows the children of their base to be the most abused, molested and sexually assaulted?
More than any other group and without creating any repercussions to the institution that harbours the highest percentage of verified pedophiles.
Last time I checked the numbers, 6% of Priests have engaged sexually with a minor. That’s numbers that even shitty Hollywood can’t even compete with.
the “let’s protect the children” crowd
They don’t want to protect children broadly, they want their kids protected from being abused by other people. You don’t want someone mishandling your property after all.
Unfortunately they abuse their own kids…
That is the implication I was going for. They are heavily into the idea of “owning” their kids. Those religious “promise keeper” oath things where fathers make their daughters wear special rings and control their sex lives is widespread in many parts of the country and I do not believe for a MOMENT that it’s not rooted in some strange sexual fantasy… it’s not a coincidence that every new insult, swear word and condemned trend by conservatives lines up exactly with that very thing becoming crazy popular on Pornhub.
Conservatism broadly is rooted in sexual insecurity above all other things, they love the feeling of creating and breaking taboos. They’re just too ashamed to just have casual sex and roleplay with other consenting adults so they end up making it EVERYONE’S problem.
Even if they’re not actively molesting their kids, they are still participating in a deeply mentally abusive and invasive practice that instills lifelong shame, insecurity and wrecked self-esteem being passed down, starting the same cycles all over again.
Sounds about white
Because according to the data linked above, white perpetrators are less than half (~47%) of the total, while being ~62% of the general population, making them significantly underrepresented among child molesters.
Sounds like someone gets their info from ‘narratives’ rather than actual data.
