Anti-Gay church minister charged w/ underage male sex - Part II
[quote] Appellate Court Overturns Former Youth Pastor's Disorderly Conduct Conviction
An Illinois appellate court has overturned a disorderly conduct conviction against 27-year-old Paxton Dale Singer, of Sugar Grove, on the grounds of double jeopardy. The former youth pastor at Harvest Bible Church in Aurora had been convicted in 2019 over alleged text messages that were sexual in nature sent to a teen parishioner in 2017. Singer had been sentenced to twelve months of court supervision.
Singer had requested a new trial on the grounds that his guilt was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The request was granted by a Kane County judge who said that they would like to see more evidence from prosecutors. Singer's attorneys argued that doing so would amount to double jeopardy for their client and requested that the case be dropped on those grounds. The court denied the defense's request and rescinded the order for a new trial saying that no evidentiary or procedural errors occurred during the first trial.
The Second District Appellate Court in Elgin ruled last week that the decision to hold a new trial on the basis of insufficient evidence amounted to an acquittal and that indeed a second trial on the same charge would violate Singer's rights.
In its ruling, the appellate court noted that there was sufficient evidence to convict Singer, but that the acquittal granted by the court when it ordered a new trial must stand.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 49 | June 29, 2022 7:44 PM
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Other image of Mr. Singer:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | June 15, 2022 4:36 AM
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[quote] In his video, former Harvest volunteer James Engleman alleges that I received “screenshots of all of the sexting text messages that had gone back and forth between Paxton Singer” and boys Singer allegedly was “sexually exploiting.”
[quote] According to Engleman, the text messages said things like, “Do you get erections when you wrestle other boys? Do you want to meet me at a hotel tonight? Can you send me a picture of yourself in your underwear?”
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | June 15, 2022 4:42 AM
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Homecoming king and queen;
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | June 15, 2022 4:43 AM
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He's not ugly for a pedo.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 15, 2022 5:55 AM
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How old was this "victim"?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 15, 2022 6:01 AM
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Whorraaayyyy! Now that he's a free man and his "victim" is legal, he and the boy can be together for ever, and have sleepovers, and giggle all night, and eat gummy bears, and have tickle fights, and model tighty-whities for each other, and READ THE BIBLE TO EACH OTHER, except using a "sexy GODLY voice"!
PRAISE JEEBSUS!!!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 15, 2022 6:19 AM
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If only my priest had been that hot!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 15, 2022 7:23 AM
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This is perhaps wrong to say, but he's exactly the type of guy I was dying to experiment with as a horny, lonely teen in my fundamentalist home state.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 15, 2022 8:25 AM
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I cannot parse what's going on in those appeals and acquittals and shit in the first post. Can someone diagram it for me?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 15, 2022 10:19 AM
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This case must surely be a case of mistaken identity. This is a man of God!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 15, 2022 10:27 AM
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I think the article is missing some facts, but here's what seems to be the unlikely case.
1. He was convicted.
2. He requested a new trial, and it seems the trial judge agreed thinking that there should be more evidence. So the trial judge acquitted him (this is the key), and ordered a new trial.
3. His attorneys then objected to the new trial, claiming double jeopardy, i.e., he had already been on trial for which he was acquitted by the trial judge. The trial judge refused.
4. His attorneys appealed, and the appellate court decided that (1) there was sufficient evidence to convict him; but (2) it didn't matter, because the trial judge acquitted him when ordering the new trial.
It seems like a shockingly stupid trial judge didn't know that acquit someone of criminal charges and then order a new trial on those same criminal charges.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 15, 2022 10:32 AM
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*It seems like a shockingly stupid trial judge didn't know that he couldn't just acquit someone of criminal charges and then order a new trial on those same criminal charges.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 15, 2022 10:33 AM
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God must have been on his side, R16.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 15, 2022 10:58 AM
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R12 You're an obsessive pedo. Give it a rest. It was funny the first time.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 15, 2022 1:41 PM
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Good, handsome gay men should be free!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 15, 2022 1:46 PM
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He looks like a cute gym coach I had a crush on when I was in 9th grade, he always caught me eyeballing him, he looked very sexy in his Grey sweat pants, RHS athletics t-shirt and a whistle hanging around his neck. I was longing to blow his whistle, and I think he was fully aware of it...
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 15, 2022 2:09 PM
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I know a youth pastor at Harmony Bible Church who abused an underage male teen in his youth group. He led youth camps. People still didn't want to believe it, even though there were text messages. Those church members tend to be smug and arrogant and really don't give a shit. They only care about rooking people into their church. Sure, they lie to get to their goals, but hey, Jesus would have wanted it.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 17, 2022 3:40 PM
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He would have been a dream come true for me as a horny teen
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 17, 2022 3:49 PM
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Where's Del Shores when you need him? This story cries out to be told!
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 17, 2022 3:55 PM
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So I guess now he can go back to being Youth Pastor? Xtianity in the US is really, really hilarious.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 17, 2022 4:03 PM
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It's not just the U.S. Look at the Catholic Church the world over just moving around child abusers to other parishes...
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 17, 2022 4:09 PM
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Well, someone has quite the crush OP!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 17, 2022 4:13 PM
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[quote] 2. He requested a new trial, and it seems the trial judge agreed thinking that there should be more evidence. So the trial judge acquitted him (this is the key), and ordered a new trial.
Yeah, that trial judge sounds like an idiot. It sounded like a misdemeanor conviction, 12 months or probation. He'll get into more trouble in the future, I'm guessing. His neck is unusually long.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 17, 2022 4:16 PM
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Maybe, oh, I don’t know, read the thread to find out, you fucking simpleton.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 17, 2022 5:31 PM
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Which post references the victim's age?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 17, 2022 5:36 PM
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It was in the first thread.
The accusers were 16 and 17 years old and the perp was 24 at the time of commission.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 17, 2022 5:52 PM
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Has he learned the difference between good touching and bad touching now?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 17, 2022 5:58 PM
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Sad to say I’d have been thrilled to have him fondle me when I was 16-17.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 17, 2022 6:56 PM
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These are the people who want to decide everything for us. Even whether we live or die. They are boldly establishing a theocracy, state by state. If you are gay, make no mistake, these Evangelicals are not your friends.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 25, 2022 1:01 PM
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He asked for a new trial which should waive any double jeopardy claim. The judge granted that but also entered a judgement of acquittal in the first trial. Is that it? If so, it seems like an technical error which the appellate court should have remanded for clarification?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 25, 2022 1:19 PM
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The Evangelical "Christians" want to suppress Islamists, yet they want what the radical Islamists have - complete control over women, gays, and everyone else they hate, through laws. They established penal laws in Ireland and England, and they want them here. U.S. "Christians" are a thing to be feared. They won't stop because they mistakenly believe they are speaking for God.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 25, 2022 1:30 PM
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Any Church that has a "Youth Minister" is telling the world, "we employ pedophiles."
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 25, 2022 1:40 PM
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He’s a looker. Is he getting his old job back? He can just blame his actions on Demons and pick up where he left off.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 25, 2022 1:53 PM
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Christians love that their leaders are sexual predators who rape their children.
They love it. It's some kind of perverse excitement akin to playing Russian roulette.
I have a coworker who sent her kids to Catholic school and told her son to tell her immediately if a priest ever molests or rapes him. She was serious. She worried about it constantly. I asked her many times why she would pay to send her kids to a school where she believed the teachers or administrators would rape her children. She said it's a good education. I honestly believe she was hoping one of the kids would be assaulted so that she could get off on the guilt and trauma. And if it happened, she would blame only the individial priest and keep giving her money to the church that has made raping children their industrial practice.
Sick.
Christians are sick in the head.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | June 25, 2022 2:03 PM
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And they accuse Muslims of worshiping a pedophile - when pedophilia is at the very core of their own religion.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 29, 2022 7:21 PM
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Does he have “an” Onlyfans?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 29, 2022 7:44 PM
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