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riversedge

(79,073 posts)
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:06 PM Oct 2023

MS Coast 'media minister' faces child porn charges. He had 9,900 images, police say.

Source: sun Herald



By Margaret Baker Updated October 17, 2023 3:44 PM 00:22 01:10


A computer software developer and “Media Ministry” member at a Mississippi Coast church faces federal charges for distributing and possessing child pornography, court papers say. Cameron “Cam” Cotrill, 66, of Vancleave, is jailed without bond pending trial in January.

Federal authorities allege he had accessed 9,900 sexually explicit images of children engaged in sex acts on his computer, court records say.

After his arrest, Cotrill’s attorney, James Farrior, unsuccessfully appealed to a judge to grant Cotrill bond pending trial.


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In character letters sent to a judge before the bail hearing, family, friends and fellow parishioners described Cotrill as a man committed to his family, faith, and community and praised him for his “knowledge of God’s word.” A senior adult pastor who has known Cotrill since 2022 described him as a volunteer and member of the church’s “Media Ministry” who “consistently demonstrated conscientiousness to his ministry responsibilities here.”



Read more: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article280514244.html#storylink=cpy



His knowledge of Gods word was probably just used to portray the idea that he was a good guy.









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MS Coast 'media minister' faces child porn charges. He had 9,900 images, police say. (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2023 OP
Huh...no mention of his drag name. Funny that. ret5hd Oct 2023 #1
+1 2naSalit Oct 2023 #3
Can't be true. He's not wearing a dress. Ray Bruns Oct 2023 #8
It's archived. usonian Oct 2023 #2
I thought you meant he's been added to the ever growing list of pedo pastors and priests progressoid Oct 2023 #39
I just share archive links to paywalled articles. usonian Oct 2023 #40
Clergy, cops, and coaches. Aristus Oct 2023 #4
I'm with you 100% Marthe48 Oct 2023 #11
Thanks! You just cracked me up - "bird sanctuary"! hatrack Oct 2023 #14
Ditto! ggma Oct 2023 #17
As a man with a small, close cut beard, I LOLed at bird sandtuary progressoid Oct 2023 #38
I am growing my first beard at a (redacted) age. usonian Oct 2023 #41
Media minister sounds like he was grooming ....... getagrip_already Oct 2023 #5
Man of God, eh? ificandream Oct 2023 #6
That's NOT the way to love God's little children, you slimeball creep! Talitha Oct 2023 #7
The GoFundMe is dead radical noodle Oct 2023 #9
Hiding behind "religion" and the flag. FUCK these religious pretending predators. All of them. nt Evolve Dammit Oct 2023 #10
This is my shocked face! gibraltar72 Oct 2023 #12
Does Pikuchu blink ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #22
And not a drag queen. Huh. n/t ms liberty Oct 2023 #13
And they say the Democrats are the ones grooming kids, look who's talking tornado34jh Oct 2023 #15
he's Baptist azureblue Oct 2023 #18
I don't care which denomination he is tornado34jh Oct 2023 #19
When you throw a stone at a pack, the one who was hit yelps ArkansasDemocrat1 Oct 2023 #21
Not hypocrisy: he's goebbeling orthoclad Oct 2023 #31
It still is hypocrisy either way tornado34jh Oct 2023 #34
I'd say that he's read plenty of the imaginary sky daddy's "word" ExWhoDoesntCare Oct 2023 #16
His guidebook was the Fible. KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2023 #20
oh, look. Another pastor. NOT A DRAG QUEEN. niyad Oct 2023 #23
Is the trans/drag/LGBTQ issue a distraction from republican/conservative/Christian values/morals? keithbvadu2 Oct 2023 #24
Oh look! vercetti2021 Oct 2023 #25
Another one for the "not a drag queen" file. Initech Oct 2023 #26
But he's a "Christian" so it's okay. Permanut Oct 2023 #27
No, he isn't. colorado_ufo Oct 2023 #28
Roger that.. Permanut Oct 2023 #33
But at least . . . AverageOldGuy Oct 2023 #29
Beks is on Threads! AllyCat Oct 2023 #30
Qanon keeps missing these folks IronLionZion Oct 2023 #32
what I don't understand about these guys NJCher Oct 2023 #35
Facial hair has nothing to do with political ideology. Elessar Zappa Oct 2023 #36
oh, sure NJCher Oct 2023 #37

usonian

(23,045 posts)
40. I just share archive links to paywalled articles.
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 01:45 PM
Oct 2023

Way above my pay grade to catalog abusers. Power is almost always abused.

Very few use power or status with humility and compassion.

There's a review of "The Enchantments of Mammon"

Short version is that capitalism has taken the place of religion, and I believe that abusive "privilege" comes along with that.



https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615

At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct.

Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls.


Aristus

(71,488 posts)
4. Clergy, cops, and coaches.
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:19 PM
Oct 2023

I'm surprised the skeevy facial hair wasn't considered a dead giveaway. It always amazes me that a guy would look like that deliberately. It's like, Dude, yeah, you're ugly. Don't make it worse!

Marthe48

(22,573 posts)
11. I'm with you 100%
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:38 PM
Oct 2023

I see men of all ages with scruffy facial hair and I don't find it attractive. I was in Cracker Barrel with my kids last weekend, and it looked like a bird sanctuary.

usonian

(23,045 posts)
41. I am growing my first beard at a (redacted) age.
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 01:58 PM
Oct 2023

Had enough with ingrown hairs. This seems to be the answer.

Getting used to this birds nest. Will look for ways to make it neat and well trimmed.

radical noodle

(10,459 posts)
9. The GoFundMe is dead
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:37 PM
Oct 2023

Maybe he should run for president as a Republican to get the money for his defense.

Evolve Dammit

(21,399 posts)
10. Hiding behind "religion" and the flag. FUCK these religious pretending predators. All of them. nt
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:37 PM
Oct 2023

tornado34jh

(1,516 posts)
15. And they say the Democrats are the ones grooming kids, look who's talking
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 06:57 PM
Oct 2023

Hypocrites. Sometimes I wonder, how many of these churches or even politicians for that matter have secrets in their closet? Because I always find that the ones screaming loudest about certain things are the ones who have a lot to hide.

tornado34jh

(1,516 posts)
19. I don't care which denomination he is
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 08:22 PM
Oct 2023

All the religious zealots out there trying to force their religion and they do this? Hypocrisy at its worst.

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)
31. Not hypocrisy: he's goebbeling
Wed Oct 18, 2023, 08:05 AM
Oct 2023

Following Goebbels' advice to accuse your enemy of what you're planning. Powerful strategy, used a LOT by the Right.

tornado34jh

(1,516 posts)
34. It still is hypocrisy either way
Thu Oct 19, 2023, 08:27 PM
Oct 2023

See, they use their whole "Oh, the Democrats are persecuting Christians" spiel every time they are called out, expecting the Democrats to drop it. We have to keep hammering at that without stopping.

 

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts)
16. I'd say that he's read plenty of the imaginary sky daddy's "word"
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 07:29 PM
Oct 2023

To believe it paints him as a good guy. Because the book doesn't have a problem with all kinds of perversion, including raping children.

Parents can sell their girl children into sex slavery, and young girls are fair game as war booty, after all. And you do realize that the supposed virgin Mary was probably only 13 or 14 when she got impregnated...right And then history has all those centuries upon centuries with people of the book marrying off daughters at a young age--and not having a problem with it at all.

Modern-day disgust with, and prohibitions against, pedophilia have always derived from *SECULAR* morality alone, not religious.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,758 posts)
20. His guidebook was the Fible.
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 08:43 PM
Oct 2023

That Fible that's full of fibs and centuries-old male-dominated rules just like the Republican platform.


KY....... ........

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
24. Is the trans/drag/LGBTQ issue a distraction from republican/conservative/Christian values/morals?
Tue Oct 17, 2023, 09:44 PM
Oct 2023

Yes.

colorado_ufo

(6,194 posts)
28. No, he isn't.
Wed Oct 18, 2023, 01:41 AM
Oct 2023

This man is not living anything remotely resembling the life of a person with true Christian values.

Permanut

(7,911 posts)
33. Roger that..
Wed Oct 18, 2023, 09:41 AM
Oct 2023

These vermin have hijacked the name, and it is disgusting and creepy. Frustrating that it works.

NJCher

(42,251 posts)
35. what I don't understand about these guys
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:11 AM
Oct 2023

Is why they have to have so many images. 9900 images is a lot. It would eat up a ton of space on one's computer.
Why would you have such a vast number? Isn't it a bit time consuming to be looking at pictures that much? Why isn't 250 images enough?

I guess I can partially answer my own question by looking at myself. I have something like 700 cookbooks. Now in your wildest dreams you would never be able to cook enough recipes from cookbooks to justify having 700. The problem is that I hear about a title and think, oh that sounds good; I'm going to cook that. Then of course because of time constraints, I never do.

So maybe it's that.

The other thing that puzzles me about these guys is how they think these scruffy beards are the way to go. I personally find them repulsive and thank Dog there aren't any around here. But not only is the beard scruffy and repulsive, it seems odd to have face hair but no head hair. It's like an upside down thing.

They must not have any sense whatsoever of how to present themselves.

Conclusion: people not dealing with reality.

Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts)
36. Facial hair has nothing to do with political ideology.
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 03:20 AM
Oct 2023

There’s plenty of progressive men with bald heads and facial hair. I see them all the time at our local meet ups.

NJCher

(42,251 posts)
37. oh, sure
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:18 PM
Oct 2023

that goes without saying. Even my spouse has a beard, which I personally love. But it's a neat, distinguished beard, not a scruffy mess hanging off one's face.

They always do some weird twist on the beard, like what this guy did. Take another look at the picture and you will see that he actually shaves under the lower lip (yuck, I'm getting grossed out just thinking about it). Then he lets this scruffy mess hang off his chin. In addition, there are the points to the right and left of the lips--oh, I have to stop. This is just oh so disgusting. I get really, really bad vibes off this guy and his disgusting beard.

Here's is a beard that is acceptable.



In fact, not just acceptable:

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