Sleeping with Uncle Jeff

[JaneEyre]

Originally Posted by CC1

Miss Jane,

It is indeed a sad situation for all. While compassion for the perp is admirable there shoudl be justice also. He can be forgiven and make it to heaven but he still should have to pay the price for his crime.

In this case it appears he has cut a deal where he is only out six thousand dollars and no jail time. Of course he has the loss of prestige, reputation ,etc but he has kept his freedom, livelihood, etc.

The girls cannot bounce back so easily. They were not only violated they lost a set of grandparents in the process who chose to side with the perp who has now plead guilty.

This is not the first of this kind of thing in Pentecost. I know first hand of another situation involving famous Pentecostal names and remarriage to a sexual perp and the perp is a major member of a big Pentecostal church and is used in a leadership role by a Pastor I highly respect. I would like to think the pastor does not know the man's history but I have a hard time believing that. This is a situation involving a repeat offender who even if you believed his sins were under the blood once again you would not allow to be in leadership in the role this guy was in.

I agree and I agree with the rest of your post.

[Thad]

I've always heard how tough they are in TX. yet i'm surprised the sentence was so light. out here, I'f I understand correctly, if the pastor keeps something like this a secret, HE can also go to prison and the church sued for every penny it owns

[Joseph Miller]

Originally Posted by Thad

I've always heard how tough they are in TX. yet i'm surprised the sentence was so light. out here, I'f I understand correctly, if the pastor keeps something like this a secret, HE can also go to prison and the church sued for every penny it owns

I am VERY suprised at the light sentence. I have a family member in prison in TX for the exact same thing and they didnt go near that light on him.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Joseph Miller

I am VERY suprised at the light sentence. I have a family member in prison in TX for the exact same thing and they didnt go near that light on him.

Was he a Cardiologist with money and standing in the community? Or did he have the misfortune of being just a normal person like most of us?

[Joseph Miller]

Originally Posted by CC1

Was he a Cardiologist with money and standing in the community? Or did he have the misfortune of being just a normal person like most of us?

Nope he was just a common man. Well, not common because common men don't this type of stuff, but ya know what I mean.

It shouldn't matter but sadly it does.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Joseph Miller

Nope he was just a common man. Well, not common because common men don't this type of stuff, but ya know what I mean.

It shouldn't matter but sadly it does.

And therein lies the answer to the "tough Texas" query a moment ago. A lot of places are still of an antebellum patrician class mindset. "Good people" will always get more leinency no matter how bad they really are. Fact of life.

And Steady has a point, though if anyone here sought to "crucify the pastor" I missed it. But the man was in a very difficult situation health-wise. However, he should have been able to turn to some others for more help. Perhaps that stubborn streak that marks so many got the best of him, but if there could have been more eyes and ears open then his load would certainly have been lighter.

It is tragic. Another family (families) torn apart. Young people perhaps lost or at least with some of their years lost. In an open environment these types of things won't happen so often and when they do happen they will be addressed more quickly. Seven years of abuse?

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-10-...h-uncle-jeff/1

Oh My, I acutally spent some time with Beth, almost dated her back in the day, she could play a mean organ, this is really sad for all involved.

[SoCaliUPC]

In November 2005, after Katrina, Treadway was at our church and preached. Spent time during the sermon telling us about his beloved son in law who was a doctor and how no one in church was good enough for his daughter do she went out and won him to the Lord and how beloved he was and how proud he was of him. The newspaper description of him liking the SIL and proud of that....I can guess this is very true.

I will just say, I feel for the girls in this case.

All the talk about pastors covering this up.....no different in this case and all those cases with the Catholic church.

Thad....you posted many things about that closed door meeting on NFCF.

[Felicity]

My opinion is that the whole deal has little to do with the church but more to do with weird stuff going on within the family.

[Thad]

Originally Posted by SoCaliUPC

In November 2005, after Katrina, Treadway was at our church and preached. Spent time during the sermon telling us about his beloved son in law who was a doctor and how no one in church was good enough for his daughter do she went out and won him to the Lord and how beloved he was and how proud he was of him. The newspaper description of him liking the SIL and proud of that....I can guess this is very true.

I will just say, I feel for the girls in this case.

All the talk about pastors covering this up.....no different in this case and all those cases with the Catholic church.

Thad....you posted many things about that closed door meeting on NFCF.

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I did ? I sure don't recall if so.

In light of the fact that the media seems so biased against conservative christians, I hate to admit that they were right, but from what i was told, their description was pretty much the same