A well-known West Michigan pastor and his wife are facing accusations involving sex, money and teenagers.
Reverend
Strick Strickland, 36, is pastor at Kalamazoo’s Second Baptist Church
on North Rose Street. His wife Jazmonique Strickland, 25, was a
paraprofessional at Phoenix High School in Kalamazoo until she resigned
last fall, one day before police executed a search warrant at the
family’s home.
After a four-month investigation by Michigan State
Police, several sources confirmed to Target 8 that detectives found
Strickland had paid teenagers to engage in sexual acts at his family’s
home on Prairie Avenue in Kalamazoo.
That property is owned by Second Baptist Church, where Strickland has been pastor since 2012.
Kalamazoo pastor accused of paying teens for sex acts
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Parents sue 2 churches after youth pastor solicits daughter - Houston Chronicle
The parents of a teenage girl are suing two well-known Houston churches, claiming the organizations were negligent by employing a youth pastor who was convicted of sexually soliciting their daughter while working there.
According to the lawsuit, filed this week in Harris County, Second Baptist Church and Community of Faith Church were careless in their supervision and hiring of 35-year-old Chad Foster, a one-time youth pastor who pleaded guilty to trying to pressure the girl into having sex using the Internet in 2011.
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Foster was part of a "marketing scheme" by Second Baptist that allowed youth pastors to encourage students in public schools to attend church activities and events, enticing them with fast food, the suit states. The goal was to recruit their parents to join. He later went to work for Community of Faith, the suit states.
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"This is no different than a pedophile with candy in his pocket," said Cris Feldman, attorney in the case for the parents of the girl, now 17. "It's just someone who worked for Second Baptist and was told to go into school lunch rooms and recruit."
Parents sue 2 churches after youth pastor solicits daughter - Houston Chronicle
According to the lawsuit, filed this week in Harris County, Second Baptist Church and Community of Faith Church were careless in their supervision and hiring of 35-year-old Chad Foster, a one-time youth pastor who pleaded guilty to trying to pressure the girl into having sex using the Internet in 2011.
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Foster was part of a "marketing scheme" by Second Baptist that allowed youth pastors to encourage students in public schools to attend church activities and events, enticing them with fast food, the suit states. The goal was to recruit their parents to join. He later went to work for Community of Faith, the suit states.
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"This is no different than a pedophile with candy in his pocket," said Cris Feldman, attorney in the case for the parents of the girl, now 17. "It's just someone who worked for Second Baptist and was told to go into school lunch rooms and recruit."
Parents sue 2 churches after youth pastor solicits daughter - Houston Chronicle
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