Most of these stories are simple man-screws-child affars. There is a clear victim and a clear perpetrator. It’s predictable to a point were I can say with about 80% certainty 
that pastor Dennis Lee Brown will take a plea and spend some time in prison. There is a clear victim; a 15-year-old from another city. There is a clear perpetrator; a pastor who used the internet to find his young victim. There is circumstantial evidence and evidence that ties Brown directly to the crime. Brown is going down.
Brown is charged with sexual abuse in the third degree, a Class C felony, which, upon conviction is punishable by up to 10 years behind bars and a $10,000 fine.
In a criminal complaint filed in Bremer County, police charge that Brown, a pastor at Ivester Church of the Brethren in rural Grundy Center, met a victim over the Internet and then traveled to Waverly in May to engage in a sexual act.
Why would a long-time pastor engaging in high risk and illegal sexual activity? How do his actions match up to the message of Christ? Not well I think. But then, these case always mystify me. If one is to serve Jesus, then one must put aside the base desires of a criminal and be good. How hard is it for a pastor to be good? It blows my mind that this type of crime happens at all, let alone so frequently.
Brown was pastor at Ivester Church of the Brethren. The website has no information on Brown or his arrest. This is typical for a church is this situation. Their rationale will be something like, “The abuse did not take place on church property so…” Why is it that they cannot see that when their leader falls it brings into question his work and those who followed him? There are questions that need to be asked. What did Brown teach? Was he preaching from a place of love or deceit? Was he authentic or simply flawed beyond reason? Ask the questions people. It will help you heal.
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Carolyn Ann · 721 weeks ago
Were you worried the world suddenly right itself while you were vacationing? No? Oh... :-)V
Mojoey 107p · 721 weeks ago
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BeardedBear · 713 weeks ago
No, I am not condoning the crime that was committed (if there actually was one committed.)
What gets me is that people like you and all news agencies "report" things without knowing all the facts of what you are reporting.
Have you actually talked with this Pastor Brown? Or the so-called victim? Do you know exactly how they met? I don't think you have.
So, how can you, and the rest of the media, convict a person without knowing all the facts in a case?
My last question is whethere you or the rest of the media will post any type of retraction if this Pastor Brown is acquitted of the charges brought against him? I doubt it.
Mojoey 107p · 713 weeks ago
I'd love to interview pastor Dennis Brown - If you arrange a contact, I would appreciate it.
keith sheller · 478 weeks ago
Dennis responded to an offer of sex with an adult, claiming he was 21. Dennis said he had no idea that he was getting into (what used to be called) statuatory rape. Dennis evidently had a couple of other contacts on the website (don't remember what it was) all adults. Dennis has a wife and 3 children out east. Relationships are strained now, and Dennis may die in prison. He his fighting cancer. The church had some special meetings, the second one could be classified as a hate session. Dennis was fired, stripped of his credentials banned from the church, etc. / no mercy there. He is currently serving a sentence in the Iowa prison system, including Newton and Mount Pleasant. In short, his life is "over", he has been punished severely, and still is. He was a closet gay until about 2010. He is now 71 and not doing so good. He has a sweet little grand daughter out east, and it is so tragic this all happened. The victim was in the cross hairs of the law before all this, but I don't for what. At any rate Dennis was invited and stepped in it. I will not apologize for his crime, that is not the point of this reply. Just so you know that he did not get away with anything, or anything less that the book being thrown at him. Cell phone records were the clincher. The law did not need to tap it, just when and where the calls were made. He lived near me at the time. Sex urges have caused many a person to do totally weird things. (homo or hetero sexual) Suppressing them for years to appear normal, finally did him in.