Man guilty of raping teen church member

[cali]

Their church had forced her to apologize to congregation; pastor helped move her away

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire man was found guilty Friday of forcibly raping and impregnating his children's 15-year-old baby sitter, who belonged to the same church, more than a decade ago.

The case involving 52-year-old Ernest Willis of Gilford garnered national attention because the fundamentalist Baptist church he and the girl attended made her apologize to the congregation. The pastor then helped ship the girl to live with a Colorado couple she didn't know and put her baby up for adoption. Concord police did not locate her until last year.


Before trial, Willis pleaded guilty to one count of statutory rape but denied he forcibly raped Tina Anderson twice in 1997. She said it happened once while he was giving her driving lessons and again at her home weeks later. Willis testified that the two had sex on only one occasion and it was consensual.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43198631/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[LuvNewcastle]

1. That preacher needs to be in prison too.

He helped cover up the rape and he mentally raped her again.

[Fumesucker]

2. If the woman in question did not want to go to Colorado then we're talking kidnapping too..

I don't understand why the preacher hasn't been prosecuted for his part in this sordid mess.

[ejpoeta]

3. is this what they call 'family values'? jesus! and then to make the GIRL

apologize for being raped. how are these people any better than the taliban? i guess at least they didn't honor kill the girl?

[Uben]

4. Never trust a religious nut

People who hide behind religion and use it for excuses are pieces of shit. They need to be ridiculed and jailed. I wouldn't give a dime to any religion. They are much like politicians, they're in it for themselves, and nothing else. Fuck em!

No, you are not saved. There is no imaginary being coming for you, and no, we are not going to live by your morals so shut the fuck up and go to jail. You can tell Jeebus all aboout it behind bars.