Youth Director Julian Sheppard Heyman III has been arrested on charges he molested two girls. I know it is atypical for a catholic to molest girls, as youth director he had access to a broader range of children. It is a sad truth. Who can you trust anymore?
Barbara King, spokeswoman for the Savannah Diocese, said Heyman was employed as director of youth ministries from July 1988 to October 1999 and resigned his position to further his post-graduate education.
"Our Diocese encompasses 80 parishes in southeast Georgia," King said. "He was in charge of coordinating youth leaders for each parish and developing activities for youth and young adults.
The alleged abuse occurred between 1997 and 1998.
Ehsanipoor said two victims reported to sheriff's investigators about two weeks ago they were molested as far back as 1997 and 1998, during the time Heyman was employed with the Diocese.
Both victims were under 10 years of age when the crimes occurred. Under 10… how am I supposed to even write about this crap? It makes me sick.
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dromedary Hump · 807 weeks ago
Interesting how you immediately side with the accused, and condemn the victim. You've done that here before, I recall. How very Christian of you.
There has been ONE (1) instance of a youth minister/ youth pastor/ youth director having been falsley accused of child molestation in the past two years. And then it was by the mother of a child, not the child herself.
How many Youth ministers have been charged and convicted over thepasyt two years? 50? 100? 200? here..you count them:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&a...
But you don't care about the stats. All you can do is continue to do what enablers of Christian clergy child abuse have always done.. blame the victim and deny clery wrong doing.
Wouldn't surprise me if you are youth minister yourself.
Concerned citizen · 807 weeks ago
Discusted · 807 weeks ago
debbie · 807 weeks ago
former student · 807 weeks ago
i met him personaly every day for a year in his 6th grade class and everything seemed normal to me, so who are you supposed to trust now? my answer would be noone! i was luckily not confronted by him in any sexual manner at all, but i will never look at him the same way again!!
lola · 807 weeks ago
Generic person · 806 weeks ago
Maybe Mr. Heyman did commit this stuff. He might deserve to be in jail. But blaming it on people who trust in God is just idiodic.
Basically what I have said is.
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Dromedary Hump 32p · 806 weeks ago
There's that good old christian denial again.
So lets see... 13 years thus he's what..innocent? Lemme guess.. those darn victims shouldn't have waited so long so lets forget it?
Whats your point?
Lets make it clear: The blame rests 1st with the perpetrator, 2nd the church that hired him. Only after that do parents, who have been exposed to years of news reports about the proclivities of the clergy, bare some responsibility.
Given no other information ... If I had to choose between leaving a child with a 40 year old "youth minister" and the town's car mechanic, I'd go with the mechanic.
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Dromedary Hump 32p · 806 weeks ago
Thus, that information means nothing... to thinking people.
as a matter of fact 43% of protestant clergy who molest are married... AND THEIR AVERAGE AGE IS 40 YRS OLD!!
<a href="http://www.ffrf.org/timely/epidstudy.php" target="_blank">http://www.ffrf.org/timely/epidstudy.php
About the only thing you left out after pointing to his marital status, and the length of time that passed, is the fact that he's a Man of God..thus "Who'd have thunk it"
as for shcools and camps...those places do back ground checks and screening of prospective employees who will be in contact with kids.. Churchs are notorious for not screening clergy. Or would you like to deny that as well/
Generic: research more, think more, reason more ... depend on faith less.
thinkbeforeyouspeak · 805 weeks ago
I for one have researched this case and have found that the victims were two and three at the time when the crime is said to have taken place.
There are not many things I remember from under the age of five. I can not tell you a single memory from ages two or three.
These crimes are being brought to light 12 years after they supposedly happened and have somehow become a religious and or catholic issue. This man has had no other victims come forward and the two victims who are trying to get him convicted were not under his youth leadership, nor did they attend the same church as he.
Discusted · 805 weeks ago
Discusted · 804 weeks ago
thinkbeforeyouspeak · 797 weeks ago
UnbiasedMorality · 794 weeks ago
As for the comment made about some of the victims being two and three at the time if you HAD done research on this at all you would know that through investigations it was made apparent that the victims were much older than this at the time.
- "Sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor said the victims and potential victims all have reported they were abused as young as 8 years old and up to 15 years old." << this quote was taken directly from Savannah Now, Link provided
http://savannahnow.com/crime/2010-02-17/grand-jur...
My only consolation is knowing that this mans life is over as far as he knows. He was in the process of obtaining his Doctoral degree to further his career in teaching, which is of NO use to him at this point as no sane person would accept him as a teacher even with something this serious lingering over his head. Furthermore, no sane parent is gonna allow their child anywhere near a person as morally screwed in the head as Heyman. It takes a special kind of sick-o to think such things of a child, and an even WORSE kind to follow through with said thoughts. Especially seeing as this monster himself has a daughter (of whom i'm not even sure if he will be able to live in the same house with ever again)
Thinkbeforeyouspeak, Do me a favor and read a bit more into your "research" the next time you want to defend someone like this. I would also like to see what your own moral compass tells you about people like this. Let the record show that up to 10 young girls have come forward with similar stories. Now I seriously doubt that 10 young girls ranging anywhere from 8-15 (some said to be 5-6 at the time of the abuse) would gather and collaborate such as heinous story just to get back at him for something he did or didn't do. So this adds quite a bit of solid evidence to a case.
I can only ASSUME (as you have apparently done on more than one occasion) that the only reason you or anyone else would even attempt to defend such a deranged person is that you are either: 1. related to 2. intimate with or 3. simply too stubborn to see what kind of person this man truly is.
As for your research.. Charges include two counts of AGGRAVATED child molestation, three counts of child molestation and two counts of electronically furnishing obscene material to a minor. << let the actual research from professional investigation do the talking for you next time.
I best wishes and prayers go out to the families who have had to deal with the trauma that this lunatic has put them through, and hope that no one defending this man has children of their own. I cannot fathom how quickly their minds would change if they themselves or their children were victims to such abuse.
I cant even fathom what would happen to Heyman if the parents of the victims and or his prison-mates after finding out his crimes would do to him.
“.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms”
- Kurt Vonnequt Jr.
annoymous · 762 weeks ago