Wednesday, November 27, 2013

When an institution knows of abuse and does nothing

Mom, I thought he was my friend - the 11-year-old victim of pastor Ray Teets

The Kentucky baptist seminary Pastor Ray Scott Teets attended, knew that he had a prior conviction for child sexual abuse but did nothing. This led to Teets ordination as a pastor, which in turn led to his recent arrest for indecent contact with a minor. You can read the whole sordid story here.

"After the verdict I learned he was in a Baptist school studying to be a minister," Markey said. "I filed a garnishment of any pre-paid tuition that he may have had. I attached to [the request] a copy of the complaint and the verdict that showed he had been convicted of the rape. I did that solely to let them know that they are teaching a rapist –- that they are going to make a rapist a minister. I never heard back from them."

The school knew he was a child rapist and chose to turn a child rapist into a pastor, which is fucking evil. Teets was the pastor at Fallen Timbers Community Church in Springhill Township, Pa., at the time of his arrest. 


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linda titchenell · 594 weeks ago

My Mom was a patient of
Albert Gallatin 2007-2008. You mean a large company like them did not know his previous trouble> He came to my house and did tea parties with my great nieces and he also preached my Mom's funeral.
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Random · 591 weeks ago

Albert Gallatin is a school, not a hospital/company of any kind...it's a school district which had nothing to do with his petition... he wasn't a registered sex offender in the state of PA (not sure if it expired or if he even had a red flag for that) but how would you expect his church and the community to know or even think he was a sicko? There was no red flags that popped up and most people don't search people who don't have red flags like that popping up. It's really hard to search for information for a lot of people especially if there is no reason to think that in the first place.
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Mojoey 107p · 591 weeks ago

Background screening is fast and cheap. That is all it would take. it is reasonable to expect that church or school would do a background check. In fact, what we have learned from this mess is that a background check is the norm and should have been used.

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