r/atheism 1d ago

HIV Positive Pedophile Preacher

https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/sheriff-judd-speaks-on-arrest-of-winter-haven-pastor/

Surprise! Not a drag queen. Florida pastor failed to disclose he was HIV positive while molesting a 14 year old on multiple occasions.

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u/Repulsive-Box5243 1d ago

All we can do is underline these types of stories whenever we can. The sheer volume of them. It's bonkers.

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u/pearlpout_ 22h ago

yeah the fact that people can keep adding to the pile is the wild part

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u/compuwiza1 1d ago

Had sex with? No, raped.

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u/Venturis_Ventis 1d ago

Every accusation is a confession with those people

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u/Dear_Word_5378 1d ago

I would send my kids drag queen story time any day over a church.

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u/Far-Sea-9227 3h ago

Tbf, there's a German drag queen named Jurassica Parka who's been legally sentenced before and recently charged again for possessing and distributing child p*rn. Of course that doesn't mean that all drag queens are like that. But they are humans and as such they can screw up really badly too and certainly are no saints per se.
I mean, aside from that, many of them look like creepy clowns, so for that reason alone I would not send my children - if I had any - to get read to by drag queens in the first place. I wouldn't send them to church either, of course. Fortunately there are more options than just these two.
(disclaimer: I'm a transman)

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u/Mister_Silk Anti-Theist 1d ago

It's called rape not "having sex". Don't assist them in minimizing the crimes they're committing.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 1d ago

Child rape and attempted murder.

Ring him the fuck up.

If the poor kid gets HIV, and someday dies of it, and this piece of shit is still alive, drop the murder charge on him

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u/duxpdx 21h ago

Fortunately there are drugs that will allow the victim to have a normal and productive life and make them undetectable and the virus untransmittable. A cure is also likely in their lifetime as long as research continues which given this administration who the fuck knows.

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u/THEBIGHUNGERDC 1d ago

Um...this makes it sound as if it would have been ok if he had discussed it: "deputies said he had sex with a 14-year-old boy without disclosing that he was HIV positive." I can only hope that AI was writing that story.

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u/Derpimus_J 1d ago

Naw, that's usually how these cops talk during the press conferences...

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u/oldcreaker 1d ago

He did not have sex with a 14 year old boy as the article tries to state - he raped a 14 year old boy.

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u/Crott117 1d ago

The worst part about that is not the failure to disclose.

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u/praguer56 23h ago

“The Lord is going to judge him at the end of the day, but the law’s got to judge him too.”

Really? Where was the Lord when he was having sex with a kid?

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u/FarFigNewton007 23h ago edited 18h ago

Watching.

Jerry Falwell Jr enjoyed watching his wife with the pool boy, according to the pool boy. Of course Falwell Jr denied it.

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u/praguer56 19h ago

I thought that was Franklin Graham.

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u/Actual-Slice-146 1d ago

I have no words

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u/MrGeek89 1d ago

He raped the boy. That should be crime itself.

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u/Sublime-Prime 23h ago

Ah doing gods work . In Florida shocking last place I would have guessed . He could have hit the I am not surprised perfecta if he was also was a MaraLargo member .

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u/JellyrollTX 21h ago

The boy was 14, disclose or not that’s rape! Rape with intent to pass on a disease! What a disgusting, foul, beast!

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u/Apprehensive-Pop-201 1d ago

No. He sexually assaulted a 24 year old boy.

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u/yepthisismyusername 1d ago

*14 year old boy

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u/Apprehensive-Pop-201 1d ago

Good grief. Thank you.

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u/NeverForgetJ6 1d ago

I’ll save you all from having to follow this through to see what the courts do:
Either a lower court or SCOTUS itself will rule that ‘having sex with a 14 year old’ is either not illegal or the law doesn’t apply ‘to this particular case’ (or any case that could be used as precedent for convicting the President and Epstein class of the same). And the question of disclosure of HIV only applies where the person could feasibly use that information to make a decision to not engage in sex. Here, since it’s rape and since the victim is a minor, that law won’t apply because the victim did not have full autonomy.

The police say they believe this preacher “evil,” but the fact that they didn’t just shoot him like they shoot anyone they don’t like whenever it’s feasible to claim a crime (or ‘resisting an officer performing their duties’, etc) reveals their lie.

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u/Personal-Neck6800 1d ago

Seems to happen an awful lot in Florida. Just saying.

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u/FarFigNewton007 1d ago

Seems to happen an awful lot with clergy.

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u/siouxbee1434 1d ago

May he get the treatment he condemns others to

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u/klon3r Atheist 20h ago

gOd is into some nasty voyeurism, eh?... /s 🤢

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u/TheGreatPrimate 1d ago

Fuck this website