Pastor accused of Molesting Girls

[kskiska]

WASHBURN, Mo. (AP) - The minister of a rural Ozarks church, his wife and her two brothers have been accused of molesting young girls from their congregation for years, sometimes as part of a religious ritual, officials said.

The county prosecutor says the Rev. Raymond Lambert, 51, of Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church, repeatedly had sex with two underage girls with the help of his 49-year-old wife, Patty, according to court records.

For 10 years, the pastor told the girls, ``We are preparing your body for service to God,'' the prosecutor said.

Patty Lambert's brothers - Paul Epling, 53, and Tom Epling, 51 - each are accused of repeatedly having sex with girls as young as age 4 in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6034410,00.html

[NMDemDist2]

1. how much you wanna bet he preached for Bush all through 2004?

and i'd love to dig and find out if they got any of the brazillion $$$ being spread around as part of Bushit's "Faith Based Initiatives"

[eleny]

2. You read my mind!

[NMDemDist2]

4. ....

:pals:

[eleny]

8. :-)

Awww, I've got friends in high places - way up here in LBN! :pals: Back atcha!

[longship]

3. There you go again.

First, you complain when these pastors molest boys.
Now, you complain that they're molesting girls.

It just shows how hypocritical you people are. You can't have it both ways.

Actually, these pastors are equal opportunity molesters and discriminate against neither boys nor girls.
:sarcasm:

[Luna_Chick]

5. I'm so tired of being labeled immoral because I "lack faith"

..in a Christian god or organized religion as a whole (I'm one o'them faithless, damned heathen pagan types, ooo!), while people in the position of dictating morality to the rest of us pull THIS kind of shit. Especially when they scream about protecting our children. Protecting indeed!! :grr: :rant: :grr:

[PurityOfEssence]

6. Imagine that

Someone gets others to believe in the supernatural and their inferiority, then uses that power to gratify carnal needs. It's just another example of the ugliness of belief in fantasy.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. MO FORUM! (If it were a gun or Taser crime) n/t

[AlamoDemoc]

9. He's no way near being Islamist...let the man go...he's christian pastor

for god sake! :sarcasm:

[John Q. Citizen]

10. I just hope the charges are false. If they are true they should throw

the book at them.

I didn't even read the article. It's too depressing.

[Bosso 63]

11. Makes me proud to be from the Ozarks.

Well may be not so much. Its "people" like this that make me wonder about evolution, they never got past the slime stage.

[Judi Lynn]

12. I'm adding my thread, which has a short news video on it.

I posted it overnight, didn't see this thread, and the moderator locked it up.

I don't want the video to be overlooked, as it provides a good clear squint at these idiots. Here's the link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2472332

(I'm sure they're Republicans, too! Republicans have really been running wild since _Bush was selected. They've been going about things as if it's all a pre-Rapture party.)

[DiverDave]

13. Child abuse is a lifetime sentence to the child...

I'm STILL dealing with it 43 years later.

Lock up the bastards and trow away the key.
And make sure all the guys in the joint, a large percentage of which were abused as children, know exactly who and what these monsters did.

They will get theirs, I have no doubt.