Pastor didn’t believe her when she said she was molested, so he beat her with a stick.

[moobu2]

Elgin pastor: Judge finds him guilty of spanking girl during weekly counseling sessions

A former Elgin pastor found guilty Wednesday of spanking a girl with a piece of wood in his office admitted he wasn't prepared for the task of counseling a child who claimed to have been sexually abused.

Former Elgin pastor Daryl Bujak leaves the Kane County Courthouse after sentencing in St. Charles, Ill. Judge Allen Anderson sentenced Bujak to 12 months of supervision, 80 hours of community service and ordered him to pay $350 in fines. Bujak was charged with battery for spanking a girl with a piece of crown molding during counseling sessions in 2005. (Tribune photo by Candice C. Cusic / March 18, 2009)

"The situation was over my head," said Rev. Daryl Bujak, who avoided jail time when he was sentenced to 12 months of supervision. "I didn't have the ability to deal with the situation I confronted."

Bujak was found guilty of two counts of battery for spanking the 12-year-old during counseling sessions in 2005 at First Missionary Baptist Church in Elgin. He was accused of beating the girl with a piece of crown molding, in part because he did not believe her allegations.

Bujak was found not guilty of violating a state law that requires clergy members to report allegations of sexual abuse.


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[MadMaddie]

1. Wow

What a pathetic piece of shit this guy is. Even using basic common sense would have helped the child.

[Laelth]

2. "Blame the victim" runs deep.

Indeed, he was not equipped. His religion effectively un-equipped him, it seems.

-Laelth

[muntrv]

3. I think a stretch in Joliet would be good for Bujak.

[LakeSamish706]

4. Not knowing who raped the girl, if that were my daughter I would take the good pastor out...

to the woodshed for a dose of his own medicine.... What an asshole....

[Dangerously Amused]

5. His "sentence" is laughable.

He victimized that poor girl a second time, and likely caused her severe psychological damage. Look at his face, that slimy fucker is smiling. He knows he got away with soul murder.

[atreides1]

7. Yes he knows.

But what about the assclown of a judge and the idiots on the jury, they played a part in it as well.

[LakeSamish706]

8. There probably all from the same church.... n/t

[TWiley]

25. He probably sold them the video ....

Remember,

Sex is sinful
and, Sin is punished
Therefore:
Sex is punishing Sin

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. What gets me is the not guilty on failure to report

It was drilled into me when I was a teacher that we were to report all suspected sexual abuse. A kid telling you she was abused meant an immediate phone call to the cops.

[Why Syzygy]

18. She would have been much better off

reporting it to a teacher. The full article reads as parental abuse by proxy.

[peace13]

9. Can someone please molest this MF?

I have just the stick to beat him with! I hope he lost his job after his admission of being unqualified.

[my2sense]

10. WTH? - And folks trusted him to be a spiritual guide? n/t

[davidinalameda]

11. best quote of the article

Bujak resigned as pastor in August 2008, a decision that was unrelated to the charges, said Robert Steele, the church's treasurer.

"He just felt the Lord was through with him here," Steele said.

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I think the Lord was through with him way before that

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Wow. If he'd walked out on the street, and beat the first person he ran into

he'd be doing more time. Unbelievable.

[lilgayghostgirl]

13. I can't f'n believe this douche avoided jail time. n/t

[struggle4progress]

14. Anybody can call himself a pastor

... Daryl P. Bujak ... is the pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church, 385 Silver St., an independent, unaffiliated church ...
Daryl Bujak: Church members mum on pastor
Courier News, USA
May 17, 2006
Nathaniel Zimmer
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14704/daryl-bujak-church-members-mum-on-pastor

[laconicsax]

15. ...and those with the title are afforded unearned respect.

[struggle4progress]

17. Some people are authoritarians, some aren't. You can find both kinds in

many different contexts

Many authoritarians are classic kiss-up kick-down folk: they submit without question to people whom they regard as their rulers and demand obedience without question from the people they think they should rule. The anti-authoritarians question authority

The first issue here is: Why weren't the parents and "pastor" willing to listen to the girl? And the obvious answer is: they all had an authoritarian mindset and thought She's just a child. The authoritarians expect unquestioning obedience from children: If I say you're lying, then you better admit you're lying, because you are just a child and I (as the authority figure) could not possibly be wrong

The fact that the "pastor" struck the child hundreds of times over many weeks, while the parents remained indifferent to this abuse, is highly informative. Once the parents and "pastor" expressed the view that the child must be lying, they were unable to retract because they could not accept that they might have been mistaken: it would have threatened their self-esteem -- so, instead, the child was attacked

I don't this has much to do with religion. Situations where neither the parent nor a counselor find the child's narrative acceptable are not at all limited to religious fundamentalists: you can easily find cases where an authoritarian parent seeks an authoritarian psychiatrist, who then "diagnoses" the child's true but unacceptable narrative as evidence of mental illness, or where an authoritarian parent and an authoritarian law-enforcement official collude to punish a child for imaginary infractions

[laconicsax]

16. He was found not guilty of failing to report an allegation of sexual abuse.

Is that how it works? If someone makes an allegation to a member of clergy, they're required to report it provided, of course, that they believe the allegation?

[struggle4progress]

20. 325 ILCS 5 - Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act

... Any member of the clergy having reasonable cause to believe that a child known to that member of the clergy in his or her professional capacity may be an abused child as defined in item (c) of the definition of "abused child" in Section 3 of this Act shall immediately report or cause a report to be made to the Department ...

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1460&ChapAct=325%26nbsp%3BILCS%26nbsp%3B5%2F&ChapterID=32&ChapterName=CHILDREN&ActName=Abused+and+Neglected+Child+Reporting+Act%2E

I haven't seen the indictment so I don't know whether this was how he was charged, but if this was the charge his defense may have been that the girl was a crime victim, not a victim of domestic abuse

[laconicsax]

21. From the article posted:

A former Elgin pastor found guilty Wednesday of spanking a girl with a piece of wood in his office admitted he wasn't prepared for the task of counseling a child who claimed to have been sexually abused.

"The situation was over my head," said Rev. Daryl Bujak, who avoided jail time when he was sentenced to 12 months of supervision. "I didn't have the ability to deal with the situation I confronted."

Bujak was found guilty of two counts of battery for spanking the 12-year-old during counseling sessions in 2005 at First Missionary Baptist Church in Elgin. He was accused of beating the girl with a piece of crown molding, in part because he did not believe her allegations.

Bujak was found not guilty of violating a state law that requires clergy members to report allegations of sexual abuse.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-girl-spanked-19-mar19,0,121995.story

The question is if the law says that clergy must report allegations of abuse if and only if they believe the allegations. The statue as you posted is seems to answer the question--the clergy has to believe that the allegations are true.

[struggle4progress]

22. You didn't read the definition of abuse at the link

[MineralMan]

19. This guy seems to be unclear on the concept...WWJD?

Apparently, he's not that familiar with his Bible. Bad preacher! No salvation for you!

[WildEyedLiberal]

23. Good God look at him! I wouldn't buy a used car from that asshole

Could he LOOK like a sleazier d-bag? Nope, didn't think so.

[TWiley]

24. Pretty much the same thing happened around here.

A baptist preacher was stripping this teenage girl nude and whipping her with his belt during counciling. Her parents took her there for it. He eventually got arrested too.

[sakabatou]

26. I look forward to an appeal of this