Pastor convicted of sexually assaulting 14-year-old member of congregation

I have been following and reporting on the abuse the clergy has visited upon the most venerable in our society, our children. For those of us who keep a watchful eye on religion, its adherents and how they affect the general  public has seen that almost everyday some member or members of the clergy, whether it is a Catholic priest or  pastors from other churches, are being charged with molesting, in some form or another, our children.

Here is another story of such evil committed by those claiming to have been chosen by some supernatural male power living in a place call heaven. Isaac K. Aryee an pastor of a Christian church name “Praise Chapel International Ministries” was convicted of sexual assault on a child. According to the report, he is charge for using force to sexual assault the child. He is also charged with pattern of abuse and, with three counts of sexual assault on a child.

According to the Denver District Attorney's office, the victim, who was born in Sierra Leone, was a member of Aryee's church and the assaults began when the victim was 14 years old in 2008. The victim gave birth to a baby girl in March 2010 and paternity tests showed Aryee is the father.

Disgraceful as Aryee’s action is, the defense this criminal mind put up will turned your gut inside out. “During the trial, Aryee, testified and denied the allegations. His attorney argued that the victim was not a child, based on the fact that a birth certificate was never issued in Sierra Leone as it was in the middle of a civil war at the time.”

Aryee faces an indeterminate to life sentence with a minimum of eight to 24 years in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 26.

Source - 9news.com

Church pastor jailed for 11 and a half years for trafficking children into the UK

 Lucy Adeniji brought two children and a 21-year-old woman to the UK from Africa illegally and used them as servants. She was convicted of 17 different counts at Isleworth Crown Court. The mother-of-five is the first person to be jailed for trafficking children into the UK for domestic servitude. In a case that has been likened to modern-day slavery, Adeniji smuggled the three victims into Britain on false passports, and used them as servants at her home in Ray Gardens, Barking.
An illegal immigrant herself, Adeniji, 44 - originally from Nigeria - had told the victims' parents they would have a better life in the UK, but instead viciously beat them if they failed to please her. The abuse only came to light when one of the victims escaped from Adeniji's home after being beaten.  
Source-BBC News London

Commentary: 
Around the world children are being abuse in the name of religion. Children have been denied medical attention, left for dead, just because of some supernatural belief. Pastors and Priest have been molesting our children and continues to. In Africa, Christian evangelists have been running a muck. Children are being accused of being witchcraft workers. As a result, they are thrown out of their homes, villages and many are killed by these “enlighten” Christians. Tell me! Who is look out for our children? If there is a God, is he busy revealing miracles to fanatics? Are God, Jesus, and Allah just sitting on their thrown watching the abuse of those that cannot defend them selves?
Or, maybe; just maybe, there is no body there. Maybe we are the ones to protect our children and ourselves. And that, I believe, is the fact. We are the ones, and unless we standup and demand the protection of our children from these superstition nuts, these religious people will continue to commit these crimes. There is no God out there waiting to help us. The helping hand we are look for is at the end of our own arm.

Child Killed in “Exorcism”

A woman accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter earlier this week believed God had instructed her to stick a rose in the young girl’s throat to ward off the devil, according to documents filed in Nantucket, Massachusetts District Court. The police were called to the family’s home at about 12:40 p.m. Monday. Officers found Pleitez’s daughter, Nicole Garcia, lying on a table inside the home and attempted to resuscitate her until paramedics arrived. The girl was taken to Nantucket Cottage Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at about 1:18 p.m.
“During an interview shortly after Garcia’s death, Pleitez, who is originally from El Salvador, began singing and praying, telling investigators through a Spanish interpreter that the Holy Spirit could speak through her.” “Pleitez said she stuck a rose down her daughter’s throat because God told her to...” She put the rose in her daughter’s throat because demons were inside the girl, according to the translation, the officer said.
Source –Religiousnewsblog 

Commentary:
Obviously the initial inclination is to charge this lady with just being crazy, and maybe she is. But, is Pleitez’s justification any different from the justification given by the many people in the Bible who committed mass murder claiming that “God told me to”. Is her justification not in line with Abraham following the direction of a voice, which he assumed was God’s, to go sacrifice (kill) his son (Isaac)? Of course, he was stopped when a goat showed up in the nearby bushes which he substitutes in place of his son. However, because he was willing to follow the direction of a voice he heard makes it no different. In fact, in today’s time, Abraham would be seen in the same light as Ms. Pleitez, insane, someone suffering from schizophrenia. Certainly, this craziness did not just happen; it is derived from her intense belief in her religious worldview, and this is what religion does to people, especially the most enthusiastic. The only way she could see and interpret the real world is in this bizarre tunnel vision of superstition.

Did The Ancestors See This Coming?

A 53-year-old Miguel Leon Jr, “pastor of a small Santeria congregation in his Medford home has been convicted of sexually abusing two teenage brothers”. Miguel “had led a group that practices Lucumi Yoruba, which prosecutors describe as a Santeria religion based on Christianity and West African spiritual beliefs”. A Suffolk County jury found Miguel Leon guilty Friday of 37 counts, including criminal sex acts and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors said Leon told the brothers, 14 and 16, that by performing sex acts with him, they would acquire spiritual energy, power, and a higher level of enlightenment. The victims were abused from December 2008 to July 2009.
Source - Longislandpress.com

Commentary: 
This is a bizarre story; however, many ancestor worshop religions/cults within Afrocentrism, for example,  teach that one can “acquire spiritual energy, power, and a higher level of enlightenment” through sex. It is a common tread in these religious groups. They appears to be obsessed with sex. In fact, many of the leaders claim to have obtained this “higher level of enlightenment”. This is, of course, nonsensical pseudoscience; irrationality.  Protect your children; no ancestors,spirits, or God(s) on the other side or in heaven, even if they exist, will do it for you!