Deep Thoughts: What if a pastor were a serial rapist?

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

What if a pastor were a serial rapist?

I write about a lot of evil manipulative degenerate pastors. I may have found a contender for the worst of the worst. Pastor Matthew Dwayne Jarrell killed himself in a West Virginia jail cell after an arrest for sexual assault. Police think Jarrell may have traveled the country leading a double life as a Baptist pastor and serial rapist, or perhaps even worse. Police found disturbing equipment in his van from an arrest in 2007.

In his vehicle they found two knives, a stun gun, leather gloves, video equipment and a machete.

Jarrell had a murder kit.The police think there are more victims.

"You have a four-year time span," said Detective Cpl. L.S. Deitz of the Kanawha County (W.Va.) Sheriff's Office. "Most people, when they commit crimes . . . most likely, there are additional incidences that they have not been caught for. . . . We're wondering exactly what he has done, if anything."

Four years of travel, a murder kit, and two arrests for sexual assault, it’s no wonder Jarrell killed himself. The jig was up.

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Disgusted in Texas · 724 weeks ago

Those were my thoughts, was he a killer as well? And with a police badge hidden, he had the means to coerce potential victims. The evidence reads like something out of "Criminal Minds".
I know people who went to him for marriage counseling. Red flags began to go up when he asked the men in private about their wives sexual habits.
There are men at that church who know more than what they are letting on. I hope TPTB get to the bottom of it.
Glad I never liked drinking the kool-aid.

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christabrown 23p · 724 weeks ago

What if a pastor were a serial rapist? If he's Baptist, he'll likely be able to get away with it for a very long time. Consider the case of "murdering minister" Matt Baker who easily moved through a string of Baptist churches and organizations for 16 years until, finally, he was brought up on murder charges in 2010, and found guilty. Only then did it come to light that he had also left a wake of numerous sexual assault and abuse reports, many of which were known about by other Baptist officials, and some of which involved minors. But no one ever did anything. It took a murder to bring that pastor's horrific history to light because Baptists did a fine job of keeping it all covered up.

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