Former Baptist youth pastor Joseph Todd Neill, of North Fork Baptist Church in Shelbyville, admitted to possessing violent and sadistic images of child pornography in a plea deal. He faces 20 years in prison. Neil still faces trail for the sexual exploitation of a minor and statuary rape by an authority figure.
Former North Fork Baptist Church youth minister Joseph Todd Neill, 37, agreed to plead guilty to a charge of possession of child pornography on Feb. 13. The plea agreement was filed Thursday.
Neill faces up to 20 years in prison. There has not yet been a plea hearing scheduled.
The child porn images were discovered when Shelbyville police began investigating charges that Neill had seduced and had sexual contact at least twice with a 17-year-old female church member.
There were 72 images:
Among the images, 32 included children. One image was of a child under the age of 12. Seven images depicted violent child rape. One image depicted bondage and child rape. At least one child pictured was a known victim of molestation from age 5 until 9, according to police. Nine of the images were cartoons depicting minors in sexual activity, and 26 showed minors in minimal clothing or lingerie.
The images were discovered during a forensic investigation linked to the investigation of alleged statutory rape.
According to Detective Sgt. Brian Crews of the Shelbyville Police Department, Neill's phones were seized in January during their investigation of the original charges. Crews asked for forensic help from the TBI to see if any evidence had been deleted from the phones, and text messages were recovered to and from the alleged victim.
But during that testing, TBI agents also recovered a number of files and images with minors in sexual situations.
Neill was arrested in September 2013.
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disclosure22 · 578 weeks ago
Florida Church Bans Children to “Protect” Pastor Registered as Child Sex Offender
“He’s preaching the Lord’s word and he can be wherever he wants to,” said Lindy Brown.
Florida church has separated children out from their congregation so a pastor who confessed to sexual crimes against two young girls can continue preaching. While serving as pastor of Shiloh in 2008, he surrendered to police in 2008 and admitted to committing sex crimes against two girls under the age of 16.
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Remember the Lostprophets singer who sexually abused babies 11 months old? His ex-girlfriend reported him to the police in 2006 but was later told the police would drop the investigation and the girlfriend would be charged with harassment because the singer's mother, a Baptist Pastor's wife, did not want to proceed with the investigation.
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snapjudy 53p · 578 weeks ago
So let's hope that anyone who may have knowledge or may have been harmed by Joseph Todd Neill, will find the courage to come forward and contact law enforcement, no matter how long ago it happened.
Your silence only hurts, and by speaking up there is a chance for healing, exposing the truth, and therefore protecting others.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511, SNAPJudy@gmail.com
SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, and members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc.