Former assistant dean at Pat Robertson's Regent Univ and his wife plead guilty to child sex abuse

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/12788/former-assistant-dean-at-pat-robertsons-regent-univ-and-his-wife-plead-guily-to-child-sex-abuse


It's getting to be a broken record, isn't it? Yet another member of the pious set proves the far-right judgmental conservative set is populated with a boatload of deviants. In a Virginia Beach Circuit Courtroom in separate hearings, Stephen Lee McPherson, 40, and Melina Ann McPherson, 37 pled guity of taking indecent liberties with a minor -- not one incident, mind you, but several between 1996 and 2000 involving three sisters. It occurred while the McPhersons were house parents at Hope Haven Children’s Home. It makes you sick.

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Haven is a Christian-based shelter run by Union Mission Ministries, which was directed by Stephen McPherson’s grandfather, the late Rev. Ted Bashford.

Court records show Stephen McPherson repeatedly molested two of the sisters under his supervision and manipulated them by citing Bible verses that he said justified the abuse. Melina McPherson engaged in sexual acts with the third sister, cited Bible verses to justify her actions and told the victim that “they had a special relationship,” according to court records.

Stephen McPherson already is serving time on related sex abuse charges. He pleaded guilty in January to sexually abusing the two girls in Chesapeake. The McPhersons moved to Chesapeake in 2000 and took the three sisters there after adopting them, records show.

He was ordered to serve 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to forcible sodomy and object sexual penetration charges.
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Stephen will serve 3 years. It's not clear how long Melina McPherson will serve. She agreed to serve 40 days in exchange for the guilty plea (the couple has two young kids at home; I don't even want to know what's going on under their roof - she shouldn't be near ANY kids), but the judge has not said yet whether he would accept it.
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child sexual abuse in the US is EPIDEMIC! true. its an epidemic.

over-breeding. Guess they need to keep up the supply of victims to meet their demand.

Christian Broadcast Network. He was a very committed Christian and thought that was a big chance for him.

Months later he returned broken. Later I heard that he quit because of the sexual misconduct he saw within Robertson's inner circle. He said there was wife swapping and group sex. I think one wife invited him to join her and her husband, and that was what led him to leave.

I didn't know why he was so deflated until one of my colleagues filled me in on the details.

...while claiming they'd been kidnapped in a carjacking, and whose behavior newt Gingrich tried to characteize as "Democratic (party) Values"?

Molested by her stepdad, who'd been the local head of "Robertson for President" during his '88 primary bid, and local organizer of the Christian Coalition after that group was formed from Robertson's donor mailing list (an illegal transfer, btw).

We keep getting ripples of information, but I'll bet there's a whole lot more that hasn't come out.

When you think you're God, you can do most anything.

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Says a lot about how our "justice" system treats these kinds of criminals.

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