California Youth Pastor Accused of Revolting Sex Abuse

[ItsjustMe]

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California Youth Pastor Accused of Revolting Sex Abuse

Bradley Reger was seen chatting up a young girl at a Nevada airport just the night before his arrest last week, authorities said.

A California church deacon allegedly sexually abused numerous boys on religious mission trips under the guise of inspecting their genitals for “concerning” moles—helping protect the children, he told them, from the ravages of skin cancer.

The abuse dates back to at least 2009, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Sacramento federal court upon his July 7 arrest and reported first by The Daily Beast.

Bradley Earl Reger, 67, “used his position of authority… to groom children and continually grope their naked genitals for his own sexual pleasure,” federal prosecutors said in a detention memo after Reger was taken into custody. Local police first received reports in 2003 of abuse by Reger, who “never seemed to run out of teenage boys whose genitals he could fondle under the guise of medical ‘exams,’” according to the memo.

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[Haggard Celine]

1. That is one creepy photo!

That guy looks like a pervert chosen by central casting. Seems like they would've noticed that before they hired him to be the youth minister, and why wasn't he stopped when people first started complaining about him? The same thing happens in other churches. How many times was it before they decided to do something about him?

[temporary311]

2. The whole concept of "youth pastors"

should really be ended. I'm not sure if a more perfect set-up for pervs could be concocted, almost like that was the real intent by whoever invented it.

[Major Nikon]

3. John the Baptist made his living washing nude young boys in the Jordon river

Just sayin’

[3Hotdogs]

7. Yeah, but Johnny wasn't concerned about the boys' health. Did John check to see if the boys had

moles on their dicks?

At least Miss. Balbreaker was worried about it.

[Old Crank]

11. If I remember

Actions like that got his head on a platter?

[Major Nikon]

12. Probably not for that

Pederasty was widely practiced and accepted at the time, particularly when it came to religious instruction. Certainly we can’t know if he was diddling his students, including Jesus, but it would be a bit naive to assert he wasn’t.

[Old Crank]

4. We need new procedures for ministers

Background checks for starters including finger prints.
No minister can be alone with any minor, have to have at least one witness.

I know it won't fly because that is regulating religion.

[mopinko]

6. if the churches dont start doing it themselves

they’ll go the way of the dodo.
not just background, but psyche eval. it cant be that hard to screen for pedos.

[lees1975]

9. Background checks aren't enough.

That only detects prior criminal activity.

At least two major conservative, Evangelical denominations are currently dealing with crisis-level sexual abuse among their clergy and church staff members, along with the ongoing Catholic problems.

There is actually an "opposition" group which has formed in the Southern Baptist Convention which is attempting to downplay the whole abuse issue. In three of the higher profile cases, involving individuals with a lot of clout and influence, there have been attempts in their in-house media to blame the women involved. In two cases, the men who perpetrated the abuse, one a seminary professor, the other a high profile, influential, big dollar pastor who served two terms as President of the denomination and reaps in huge profits off contractor business that the convention uses for various services, are suing the convention for investigating them and concluding, with plenty of evidence, that they were guilty of abuse. One of them has returned to his preaching and seminar circuit, pronounced "restored" by four of his big dawg pastor friends. They have a mess that is out of control and out of their ability or willingness to handle. And I understand there's an even worse situation among the Presbyterian Church in America, PCA, the conservative Presbyterian denomination.

[dalton99a]

5. Pdf:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23870087/reger-detention-memo.pdf

[3Hotdogs]

8. And, "Nazarenes for Peace."

I love it.

[republianmushroom]

10. Not a drag queen, just a bible totter..

[Aristus]

13. I saw 'Youth Pastor' and the auto-fill in my head provided the

'Revolting Sex Abuse'.

Not a drag queen in the bunch, either...