Gallatin police have arrested a Kentucky church pastor on statutory rape charges involving a 14-year-old male member of his congregation.
Roy Neal Yoakem, 46, of Scottsville, Ky., was arrested Monday and is charged with aggravated statutory rape, sexual battery by an authority figure, statutory rape by an authority figure and fugitive from justice, according to a news release from the Gallatin Police Department.
According to police, Yoakem sexually assaulted the teenager on two occasions last month, once at New Gospel Outreach Church in Scottsville where he was the pastor and once at his Gallatin residence on Edgewood Drive.
Yoakem is also a convicted sex offender, according to the release. In 2005 he was convicted in Kentucky of second degree sexual abuse of an 8-year-old boy and is currently registered in Tennessee as a violent sex offender.
"If (a convicted sex offender) has a secondary address or if they spend a certain amount of time a month in the state, they have to register here," Gallatin Police Department spokesman Bill Storment said Tuesday. "So, his primary residence is in Kentucky, but the Gallatin residence is considered his secondary address."
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So let me get this straight. The church knew he was a registered sex offender, decided on their own to "forgive" him, put him in a position of power over children and then tells the community, "With these kind of things, it does look negatively on the church. We ask the community not to view the church or its members negatively."
How the fuck would you like the community to look at you? Sorry to say but with the shit coming out of Bratcher's mouth, the authorities better look into his background very, very closely.
Pastor arrested on statutory rape charges in Gallatin
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