Rock Hill pastor who stole $8 million from church gets probation for impersonating doctor, touching boy | The Herald

The Rev. Johnny William “Bill” Cabe, the York County pastor who spent seven years in prison for stealing $8 million from church investors, will serve no prison time after pleading no contest Friday to 2010 charges alleging he claimed to be a doctor and performed exams on an 11-year-old boy he had befriended.

Cabe, 56, was charged twice in the 1990s on similar allegations of giving hernia exams and other improper contact with minor boys at Riverside Independent Baptist Church but was never convicted. On Friday, Cabe was sentenced to five years’ probation, yet he admitted no guilt in pleading no contest to five counts of unlawful practice of medicine for touching the boy’s private parts.
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Cabe had what appeared to be an “obsessive inappropriate relationship” with the boy, but that relationship was not a crime, Joyner said. However, because Cabe was not a doctor, “there was no reason for him (Cabe) to touch the child” in his private areas for any reason, Joyner said.

The child did not know at such a young age that Cabe was not a doctor as he purported to be, and so did not know that what was being done by Cabe was wrong, Joyner said.

Rock Hill pastor who stole $8 million from church gets probation for impersonating doctor, touching boy | The Herald