During the week I spend most of my time reading, writing and researching the various interests of mine, politics, economic and the Middle East, and to some it is all so much boring crap….but to me it gives my higher brain a chance to expand and educate…..and then there are the weekends…..this is the time I give my brain a rest and venture into the lesser intellectual world…and this week I sink into the lowest level of intellectual pursuit….SEX!
we have all been appalled with all the pedophilia associated with the Catholic Church…..condemnation from all parts of the world….but you see that the Catholic Church is not alone with sexual predators….
A leading evangelical Christian pastor has been arrested in a Rio suburb for the alleged rape of six women, including three minors, police said.
Marcos Pereira, who has been head of Brazil’s Assembly of God of the Latter Days church for the past 20 years, was detained late on Tuesday.
“He is accused of raping six women, including three under the age of 18,” police inspector Marcio Mendonca Dugubras on Wednesday.
The pastor, who made headlines by practicing collective exorcisms of drug addicts and prisoners whom he later converted in Rio jails in the 1990s, was jailed in a maximum security penitentiary in northern Rio.
Dugubras said that Pereira would tell his victims that they were possessed by the devil and therefore needed to have sex with a “holy” person.
The victims, all of them poor, consented, thinking that by doing so they “were ridding themselves” of their sins, Dugubras told reporters.
Police had been investigating the pastor for a year and said he might have raped 20 other women since 1998.
One of the victims, a member of Pereira’s church, was said to have been sexually abused from the age of 14 to 22.
Police said the pastor was also being probed for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, money laundering and homicide.
I am aways amazed at the lengths these types of ‘religious’ people will go to….in the name of God.
May I have your thoughts on this?
Church leaders have been exploiting and seducing millions of people’s minds for centuries. How easy it is for them then to take advantage of low-income and naive young girls
It is pathetic! I have NO use for people like these and they bring shame on their institutions.
There’s a real problem with abuse here in Brazil, and it mirrors society in general. People are extremely simplistic and gullible here. It’s fertile ground for any bastard (political or religious) to take advantage of. The root of the problem is very simple: education.
And poverty, IMO….
Absolutely, but education is “free” here…. that education, though, is awful. In the south-east its OK, not great, but OK, but you go north of Rio, or out west and its atrocious. Doesn’t help paying teachers next to nothing.
Jihn, it seems we here have that same problem…..Mississippi education is 49th out of 50….and we have a butt load of poverty….
The correlations are not a coincidence
So true….sadly