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Paragons of Virtue Arrested

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It's time to name and shame the self-proclaimed paragons of virtue. Keep it civil, though.

Stories are about those who have been placed in positions of trust, and then abused that trust.

Feel free to add stories of the self-righteous from other walks of life.

New rule: With regard to stories of particularly, but not only, female teachers sexually assaulting students. Any comments similar to "where were they when I was in school" will earn you the right to find another forum.

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A Georgia megachurch is facing allegations it failed to warn congregants about a former youth volunteer who’s been charged with trying to traffic a 16-year-old on the dark web.

Records obtained by The Roys Report (TRR) show that on June 30, authorities arrested Kelly Garrett Ivey—a former youth volunteer at Rock Springs Church in Milner, Ga.—and charged him with child cruelty and kidnapping. And last Monday, a grand jury indicted Ivey, 41, on first and second-degree charges of cruelty to children, trafficking, and three counts of criminal attempt to commit a felony, including kidnapping.

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[–] Tolstoshev 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me reading: Former youth volunteer who’s been charged with… “Here we go again, another groomer in the church”

…trying to traffic a 16yo on the dark web. “What in the fuck???”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

those Megachurch boys are entrepreneurs first and foremost

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Note: not a trans person or drag queen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

when has it ever been them? But the bible-thumping crowd will continue to demonize vulnerable communities, because they don;t care about children being groomed or trafficked. They just want to be awful, horrible people and feel strong by punching down.

It's like their pro-forced birth stance, which is about denying women their basic human rights & controlling women.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What were they selling them for?

[–] exoplanetary 16 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Sex trafficking, probably.

Absolutely fucked stuff coming from the church as per usual.

[–] dragonflyteaparty 17 points 1 year ago

Certainly that given that he was advertising the child as a "virgin female".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Because 16 years old was probably getting too close to the expiration date for this monster and figured he could make a quick buck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

About tree fiddy

[–] EdibleFriend 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly...morbidly curious myself. What does a 16 year old go for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EdibleFriend 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely hypothetical. I mean, after all, who can actually afford to buy a teenage sex slave in this economy?

[–] tallwookie 1 points 1 year ago

bill gates?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At least tree fiddy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i think maybe every Megachurch is just a gateway to MegaHell

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 year ago

Megachurches are so 1997 I'm looking for a gigachurch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

this is the problem with the name of this sub. not really the name but like I had a guy in another convo suggest catholicism was worse than other christians because of the kid didlin and its like dude its all over in the other churches they just don't have a large central authority to go after.

[–] AEsheron 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's just the end of work grogginess, but I read, "trying to sell teen on dark net," as though they were trying to convince them to check it out, by a marijuana, etc. Like trying to sell your friend on a TV show or something.

[–] DietBajaBlast 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The prestigious julieroys.com

[–] maniajack 1 points 1 year ago

Seems pretty well sourced?