Church pastor charged with child rape

Source: Komotv.com

GIG HARBOR, Wash. -- Prosecutors charged the pastor of a church here with four counts of first-degree child rape and two counts of child molestation.

Pierce County sheriff spokesman Jerry Bates said a 7-year-old girl told an older friend that Stephen Kerr had been molesting her. The friend told a youth pastor who contacted police.

Bates said Kerr, who is pastor of the Gig Harbor Church of the Nazarene, confessed to members of the church and told them he was going to surrender to police.

In court on Tuesday he pleaded not guilty to all the charges. In court documents, prosecutors allege that the sexual abuse has been going on since the girl was five years old.

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lock up the sob and never let him out.

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

It's a good idea not to leave your young children alone with any adult. I don't care if it's a priest, a preacher, a nun, a doctor, a teacher, a scout leader. Uh-unh, no way.

And being churchy has never meant that anyone's moral. We churchy types have known that forever. ;)

After watching the whole McMartin witch hunt I try never to be alone with kids.
I don't particularly like kids so it's not a too big of a loss.
Except maybe my nephews; but maybe I'll get to know them when they get to be 16 or 17.

I'm also paranoid of someday finding a dead body and being arrested for a murder I didn't commit.
:freak:

http://www.wapacnaz.org/evergreen/evergreen.html

I grew up in the Nazarene church and went to a Nazarene college. I'd say I'm surprised, but I'm not. I know of a pastor who raped at least one girl while at Senior High Camp the summer before he came to college--and the college knew about it and did nothing. The victim went to our college, too. Sick bastard.

I can't track down where he went to college yet. I'm working on it.

Sick, sick bastard.

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_050807WABgigharborpastorKS.4c99c1e6.html

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What he did was beyond the pale.

I don't think it was a pastor but someone driving a vehicle with the Indiana plates "In God We Trust" drove into the nearby strip joint.

is Reverend or minister or preacher or priest. The only time Pastor is appropriate is when they have earned the title by proving they are good compassionate leaders of their people.

:sarcasm:

And welcome aboard Consequences. :hi:

nothing would surprise me.