Update on Christian Rapist Man Who Used Christian Mingle Site To Pick His Victims
As if you, a single Christian woman who desires marriage, needed another reason to stop believing in “equally yoked.”
According to one news story below:
… After the verdict, Deputy District Attorney David Williams III called Banks a “very dangerous Internet predator” who talked about Jesus and the Bible with the woman he met through ChristianMingle.com before going to her apartment.
Also:
She [one of his victims] added, “I pray for him every day. I pray that he changes.”During his trial, the woman testified that she met Banks on ChristianMingle because she “believed in God, Scripture, going to church, reading the Bible, and … wanted someone who had those same interests.”
What have I been saying on this blog all along? It matters not if a man is a “true” or “real” Christian or not, you have to judge a man by his BEHAVIOR, not his professed beliefs.
A man who talks about Jesus and reads a Bible is no less likely to rape you than a man who does neither of those things – this story is just one more indication of that. Some rapists and murderers work as preachers or elders in churches (I have examples on this blog, go to this page)
You cannot trust a man based on his profession of faith, if he reads and believes the Bible, and attends church regularly.
Here is an update to a story I posted about a year or more ago:
(Link): Christian date-site rapist gets 37 to life
12:03 P.M.NOV. 7, 2014
Updated1:15 P.M.
A Del Mar man who raped two women he met on a Christian dating website was sentenced Friday to 37 years to life in prison after he challenged one victim to take a lie-detector test.
Sean Patrick Banks spoke briefly at his sentencing hearing, saying he would consider giving up appealing his conviction if one victim, identified in court as KK, “can pass a polygraph on the salient parts of this case.”
…. But Goldstein said Banks’ statements to investigators showed him as an angry man whose “hatred for women is appalling.”
Prosecutor David Williams III called Banks a sexual predator who has shown no remorse for his attacks.
… Goldstein imposed a middle-term sentence on Banks, who was convicted by a jury in June of meeting KK through Christianmingle.com and RO through Match.com and forcing himself on them in separate encounters.
… Allred told reporters she and Kuhlman “want other potential victims to be aware of the risk of online dating. We don’t want what happened to Katie happen to anyone else, and if it does, we urge other victims of predators to immediately report what happened to police.”
Allred declined to comment on whether she would be filing suit against Christianmingle.com
(Link): Man sentenced for raping women he met online
Sean Patrick Banks, 39, was convicted in June of raping a La Mesa woman in her apartment after they met on ChristianMingle.com in November 2012 and raping another woman he met on Match.com in 2009.
… After the verdict, Deputy District Attorney David Williams III called Banks a “very dangerous Internet predator” who talked about Jesus and the Bible with the woman he met through ChristianMingle.com before going to her apartment.
The woman Banks met on Match.com said he forced her to have sex after they had dinner and drinks at a La Jolla restaurant.As for the woman he met on ChristianMingle.com, referred to as “KK” in court, she said he raped her in his home.“Sean put his hand tightly around my neck and told me that he thought it was crazy, with just one twist you could snap someone’s neck and kill them,” Katie Kuhlman said.
(Link): Del Mar man gets 37-year sentence for raping women from dating sites
A Del Mar man was sentenced Friday to 37 years to life in prison for raping two women he met on the dating sites ChristianMingle.com and Match.com.
Sean Banks, 39, a computer technician and former Navy officer, told El Cajon Superior Court Judge Daniel Goldstein that he was willing to drop his appeal if one of the victims would take a polygraph test.
Goldstein responded that asking a victim to take a lie detector test showed a lack of remorse. He added that Banks’ statements to La Mesa police showed “his hatred of women.”
..She [one of his victims] added, “I pray for him every day. I pray that he changes.”During his trial, the woman testified that she met Banks on ChristianMingle because she “believed in God, Scripture, going to church, reading the Bible, and … wanted someone who had those same interests.”
For their first date in October 2012, she testified, she invited Banks to her apartment in La Mesa to watch a movie. He quickly began making physical advances, she said.”I didn’t believe that was happening and I said at the top of my lungs” for him to stop, she said.
(Link): Man Sentenced to 37 Years in Christian Mingle Rape Case
By Laura McVicker
A Del Mar man (Link – opens in new browser window): convicted of raping two women he met on the online dating sites ChristianMingle.com and Match.com was sentenced Friday to 37 years to life in prison.
In his final statement before he was punished, Navy Lieutenant Sean Banks quoted what he said was his favorite Bible verse.
“You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good,” Banks said, noting he would drop his appeal if one of the victims passed a polygraph test.
Banks’ words apparently didn’t put him in good graces with the judge, who gave him the high end of the sentencing range and denied him probation. A restraining order also will bar Banks from the two victims for 10 years.
In handing down his sentence, Judge Daniel Goldstein expressed dismay that Banks continues to portray an innocent facade and has shown no remorse for his actions. The judge also said he believed the two women gave truthful accounts of the rapes — which Banks had argued were untruthful.
“He has so much hatred toward women,” the judge said, referring to Banks’ interview with investigators, where he laid blame on the victims.
Banks was found guilty in June by a San Diego County jury of rape, rape of an intoxicated woman, two counts of forcible digital penetration and residential burglary with intent to commit rape.
During the more than week-long trial in El Cajon, two women – known only as K.K. and R.O. – told the jury Banks had raped them.
K.K. said she met Banks through ChristianMingle.com and invited him to come to her La Mesa apartment for their first meeting on Nov. 21, 2012.
She then detailed how Banks overpowered and sexually assaulted her. The deputy district attorney told NBC 7 the burglary charge stems from Banks dragging K.K. from her living room to her bedroom and raping her.
The second victim, R.O., said Banks raped her in 2009 after they met on Match.com.
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