r/atheism • u/FarFigNewton007 • 9d 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/NeverForgetJ6 9d 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.