Restrictions on a registered sexually violent predator living in Brawley may be lifted if a petition filed earlier this month by his public defender is granted.
If granted, Richard Horn will no longer have to submit to polygraph tests or undergo treatment. Supervision will be lifted. Continue reading
Sex offender arrested for attending church that had Daycare and Sunday School on the premises. How often does this happen across this country in all our churches with mandated sex predators attending NA meetings and AA meeting in the church basements? Does the Pastors of these churches even realize that AA is bringing sex predators and violent felons to their churches? Does their insurance policies cover ‘sexual molestation’ for the 12 step meetings? What about the AA’s groups insurance policy-is the church named in the policy? How much coverage is it, and does it cover abuse and molestation? Important questions churches need to be asking themselves. Not to mention they are allowing the pagan religion of AA to worship in Christian Churches.
Here is yet another example of AA/NA groups being a public nuisance! This is a growing nationwide problem. The churches need to be held accountable as well as they are renting to groups without the proper zoning permits and are puttting their congregation in danger.
This is the Fort Sherman Chapel Group,District Area 92AA located in Washington State causing numerous problems for the neighborhood.
A Fortgrounds attorney wants Alcoholics Anonymous to keep it down.
Out of frustration with a local AA group’s raucous gatherings, Edward W. Kok has filed legal action against the Washington State District Area 92 AA, Fort Sherman Chapel Group and unnamed AA members.
Kok (pronounced like Coke), who lives on Forest Drive, says his quality of life has been thwarted by the hubbub of AA meetings across the street at Fort Sherman Chapel.
“The actions of the defendants are offensive to the senses, are an obstruction to the free use of plaintiff’s property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property,” Kok wrote in a legal complaint filed in district court on Sept. 8.
Kok is representing himself.
The 53-year-old alleges that members of the group – who meet at the chapel every day at 8 a.m. and also Mondays at 5 p.m. – converse loudly before and after meetings.
“…The sound is as though the AA members are meeting in the plaintiff’s front yard,” the legal complaint reads.
Sometimes loud motors and conversation starts long before 7 a.m. and goes as late as 9 p.m., the document reads. Individuals’ cars have also blocked spaces for residents in the area.
It’s a public nuisance, according to Kok.
He also alleges that the group’s meetings are unlawful, as the gatherings take place without a special use permit required for religious organization or community meetings.
That means the Museum of North Idaho is at fault, as well, Kok reports, as the nonprofit corporation owns and operates the Fort Sherman Chapel.
“The defendant museum and perhaps AA as well knew or should have known” about the group’s use of the structure for years, the legal complaint states.
Efforts to find an individual claiming authority for the AA group have been futile, Kok wrote in his complaint.
As he hasn’t been able to track down members, his legal action labels those defendants as John and Jane Does 1-100.
Kok is requesting a judge to enjoin the museum from allowing AA further use of the chapel.
He is also asking for $7,500 in attorney’s fees, though he wouldn’t say if he plans to bring another attorney on board.
“I’m committed to seeing this through to some satisfactory solution,” Kok said on Wednesday.
Individual members of the chapel AA group either couldn’t be reached, or preferred to retain anonymity and not be quoted.
http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_6b35040b-2186-5cc8-8cbe-9b6bbc3d83ad.html
The figures released to The Associated Press offer a glimpse into what has long been an extremely difficult phenomenon to pin down — the frequency of sex abuse in Protestant congregations.
Religious groups and victims’ supporters have been keenly interested in the figure ever since the Roman Catholic sex abuse crisis hit five years ago. The church has revealed that there have been 13,000 credible accusations against Catholic clerics since 1950.
Protestant numbers have been harder to come by and are sketchier because the denominations are less centralized than the Catholic church; indeed, many congregations are independent, which makes reporting even more difficult.
Some of the only numbers come from three insurance companies — Church Mutual Insurance Co., GuideOne Insurance Co. and Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co.
Together, they insure 165,495 churches and worship centers for liability against child sex abuse and other sexual misconduct, mostly Protestant congregations but a few other faiths as well. They also insure more than 5,500 religious schools, camps and other organizations.
The companies represent a large chunk of all U.S. Protestant churches. There are about 224,000 in the U.S., according to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, although that number excludes most historically black denominations and some other groups, which account for several thousand congregations.