Church leader charged with Internet solicitation

[proud2BlibKansan]

A local musician and former church leader was charged today with trying to lure sex from someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Benjamin Robert Deane, 26, appeared in Johnson County court this afternoon on one count of electronic solicitation of a child under 16. He is accused of using the Internet on Monday to arrange a meeting for sex with a person he believed was a teenager but actually was a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy. Deane is free after posting $10,000 bond.

Deane had been a member of the band Satellite Soul and was program coordinator of Heartland.k10 church since August 2003. Church officials said today he was no longer on the staff.

According to the church Web site, Deane led the ministry teams that conducted the De Soto-based church’s Sunday services, which are held at Olathe Northwest High School, 23100 College Blvd.

http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/65898.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Did Chris Hanson catch him?

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Maybe so

LOL

[BOSSHOG]

2. Obviously the CHURCH failed him

[DemBones DemBones]

4. No, HE failed to do what the church taught.

Because he's a pedophile and his wiring is not right.

Did you know that 10% of teachers molest children while only 1-2% of clergy molest children? This man was not a clergyman, of course, but more of a music teacher.

The sad fact is that 1-2% of ALL men molest children, all too often their own children, stepchildren, nephews or nieces.

I don't know how we deal with the problem. It may very well be a genetic trait. If homosexuality and heterosexuality are genetic, or primarily due to genetic factors, then the desire to molest children may also be. Logic would suggest that it is.

How can we stop these men (or the women who abuse)???

[jwirr]

5. The reason that these molesters are so often in the clergy or are

teachers is because they take jobs where there is access to children. The church or the school does not make them the way they are but it should learn to watch out for them.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Yup.

And all of them just love children and want to protect them.

But those children, they are seducers, the initiators. Just ask the molesters.

I had a friend, a woman, who I shared a house with. While there, she recovered some memories of molestation when he brother brought forward his molestation during therapy. He had been breaking a lot of laws, very stupidly. Turns out the father had molested every kid in the family. It was a very ugly scene.

It further turned out that the molestation had been passed down through generations of this family, where it was a patriarchal right for the father to use every kid for his gratification.

Did I happen to mention that there was another family tradition? There was: Lutheran ministry.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Where did you get that stat about teachers?

I find that incredibly hard to believe. Got a link to support that?

[rasputin1952]

7. He can get a lawyer from Regent, I hear they go cheap...

:D