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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTelevangelist Acton Bowen Sentenced To 1,008 Years For Sexually Abusing Children
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/12/televangelist-acton-bowen-sentenced-to-1008-years-for-sexually-abusing-children/Acton Bowen, the evangelist who served as a youth minister for teenage boys and became a best-selling author was given the maximum sentence for all 28 charges related to sexually abusing six teenagers in Etowah County on Friday. The sentences are to be served consecutively which means Bowen would serve roughly 1,008 years before being released.
Before being arrested for raping and sexually assaulting children, Bowen, founder of Acton Bowen Outreach Ministries, was a wildly popular youth evangelist and the host of xlroads TV, a worldwide broadcast viewed weekly by millions of teens and adults in every city in America and over 170 countries around the world.
Reporting on Bowens popularity, ABC News notes:
The news of Bowens arrest in 2018 shocked many in east Alabamas Christian community where he was considered a hometown hero. Bowen had served as chaplain for the 2012 Olympics, made appearances on Fox News, and promoted himself as a spiritual adviser to Hollywood Stars including Justin Beiber.
According to reports, Bowen offered his underage victims hundreds of dollars to perform sexual acts, victims he met through his youth ministry.
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Televangelist Acton Bowen Sentenced To 1,008 Years For Sexually Abusing Children (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jan 2020
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PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)1. Of course he made appearances on Fox Noise
Sexual abuse is kinda one of their things, after all.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. There was a user here, that had Google docs on all the
Republicans who have been involved in pedophilia. You needed special permission to access them, I did something wrong after I got the permission and couldn't find that user again.😔
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)4. They do have a search function here. Do you remember anything else about it?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)7. We ended up have a conversation in the middle of
a comment section. I assume it was a thread about another pedophile.
rpannier
(24,341 posts)10. I should check to see if faux spews is covering it
And if they do, how they spin this guy into an Obama-Loving, Liberal, Hollywood type
PJMcK
(22,056 posts)3. I don't think he'll live that long (n/t)
rpannier
(24,341 posts)9. Bet he makes bail after 250 years
It seems almost fitting that his ministry included the word outreach, because now we know what he was reaching for
Also, xlroads tv, should change it to xxx-lroads
PJMcK
(22,056 posts)13. How about xxx-loads?
Sorry. I'm sipping the first of y coffee.
malaise
(269,216 posts)5. Another member of the Let us Prey
posse - the vast majority of them are snake oil salesmen
Raster
(20,998 posts)6. False profit.
#FalseProfit #LetUsPrey
Raster
(20,998 posts)11. call them out every chance we get...
...back at ya
John Fante
(3,479 posts)12. One less child molester on the streets.
And ones less vote for Trump.