Thursday, November 29, 2007

Another Baptist Pastor arrested

This time for rape and sodomy of a 15 year old girl.

The pastor of a small Washington County Baptist Church was arrested and charged with second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy in connection with a nearly 10-year-old incident involving a 15-year-old girl, authorities said.

The Rev. Leonard Frazier, 55, of Stonewall Baptist Church near Chatom, was booked into Mobile County Metro Jail on Tuesday on the basis of a grand jury indictment. He was released on bail totaling $15,000, according to jail records.

Source: Pastor of Washington County church charged with sex crimes. By Susan Dakar and Ron Colquitt. 

3 comments:

Johnny C said...

With all these pastors and their sex crimes, I wish we had a visual as to where they are being done... like a map with a pin and a link to the articles about it and if we can their pictures... I wonder what areas (like texas) would be clogged with them?

Christa Brown said...

johnny: It's not a map with pins, but it is an effort to begin to chronicle the extent of the Baptist clergy abuse problem - and yes, my impression is that Texas is indeed clogged with them, as is Florida. But of course they're everywhere. Here are a couple links:
http://www.stopbaptistpredators.org/news.html and http://www.stopbaptistpredators.org/scandals/sbc_ministers.html

Johnny C said...

That is great Christa... It is a great starting point. I just wish I could make it visual... hmm I am gonna have to think on this a while to see if I can.

Thanks for the info!