Married Pastor, Father of 3, Faces Prison Time For Sex (ie, Sexual Abuse) With Teenage Intern During Counseling – by L. Blair
I’m grateful that the site or reporter mentioned that this guy is a MARRIED FATHER. Too often in culture – especially among Christians – there’s an assumption that single adults are perverts, when, quite often, these news reports of perverts are married perverts, and sometimes, these married perverts have biological children of their own.
This guy is so gross for 50 different reasons, some of which are, that he groomed and sexually abused these kids in churches – during counseling sessions. Lord. So nasty.
Also note: marriage and parenthood did NOT make this man more godly, mature, ethical, or responsible (as so many hyper pro Nuclear Family conservatives and Christians teach), and no, obviously, since this pervert got a spouse, God is NOT keeping spouses from single adults until they achieve some level of godliness or perfection.
Excerpts:
by Leonardo Blair
December 19, 2022
A married Minnesota pastor and father of three is facing up to 35 years in prison and $90,000 in fines for allegedly having felonious sex multiple times with a teenage intern during counseling sessions at his former church.
Investigator Shawn Bohnen of the Sleepy Eye Police Department declared in a probable cause affidavit filed in Brown County Court that from about October 2019 through February 2020, Pastor Nathan Van Alfred Luong, 36, engaged in a sexual relationship with his underage victim multiple times while he counseled her at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Under Minnesota Law, members of the clergy can be charged with criminal sexual conduct in the third degree if a complainant is not their spouse and sexual penetration occurred during a meeting where the complainant sought or received religious spiritual advice, aid or comfort from the perpetrator.
The law also makes it illegal for sexual penetration to occur during a period in which a complainant was meeting with the perpetrator regularly to seek religious or spiritual advice or comfort.
Consent by the complainant is not a defense against this charge.
Luong was charged with one count of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree for having a significant relationship with a victim from ages 16 to 17. …
He was also charged with criminal sexual conduct in the third degree during a religious advice meeting, which comes with a maximum five-year prison term, a $30,000 fine or both. He has also been charged with criminal sexual conduct in the third degree for having sex with his minor victim on an ongoing basis during a time when he was supposed to be providing spiritual counseling or care.
…”Witness 1 recalled Witness 2 reporting that Defendant and Victim had sex at multiple different locations including the youth room, Defendant’s Office, and while on a youth trip in Montana,” court records say.
Luong also allegedly created a position at the church for the teenager to be an intern where she had an office inside his office and worked from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“Witness 1 said that he was told that Defendant had a mattress inside his office,” court records say.
Police were provided with brown couch covers on the loveseat and sofa from the church’s youth room for examination.
…Police, however, found samples of semen on the seized sofa cover from the church and the pastor’s DNA was matched with the specimen. DNA matching the teenager was also found on the cover.
When Bohnen met with the victim in October and told her about the findings from his investigation, she confessed that she had “sex [with Luong] approximately ten times while she was an intern at Trinity Lutheran Church, and that she would have been 17-18 years old during this time.”
She said they had sex “approximately eight times in the youth group room and two times at his house in Sleepy Eye.”
The remainder of that article is (Link): here on The Christian Post
What a total sleazy dirt bag. These people are going to see him to get counseling, and he takes advantage of them to sexually abuse them.
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