A pervy youth pastor is accused of posing as a teenage boy to exchange nude photos with young girls — even while on the phone with his wife, according to court documents.
Jacob Ryan Barnett, a married dad known as Pastor Jake to churchgoers at the Catawba Valley Baptist Church in Virginia, “repeatedly asked” a 15-year-old girl last month for photos of her privates as he told her it’s “time for her to see her first d–k,” according to court documents.
“I don’t know if im readyyyy im only 15 and I barely know anything abt that whole topiccc,” the girl responded — just for the pastor to allegedly send her a nude photo of himself anyway.
Barnett, the 34-year-old father of a 2-year-old son, had messaged young girls on social media pretending to be a 17-year-old boy named “Jodie Johnson,” according to the complaint.
The mother of a different 15-year-old girl, “M.V.,” notified the FBI in May after she went through her daughter’s phone and found an explicit conversation between the teen and “Johnson,” in which the teen sent several nude photos and a video days earlier, according to the federal probable cause affidavit.
The mom searched “Johnson’s” number — and realized it belonged to “a grown man named Jacob Barnett,” the docs detailed.
On at least two occasions, Barnett spoke with that girl while talking to his wife.
Uncommonly wise but Christ on a pogo stick, while not necessarily practicing, a fifteen-year old girl – or boy – is old enough to know full well what goes where, and why, and when. Abstinence sex education, assuming she’d had even that, is a disaster.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Skinner dials into a 900- sex number and after a few seconds’ recorded greeting is dumped into a conference call with and only with the town’s bachelors, him, Moe, Apu, and somebody I don’t remember.
Apu: This is less stimulating than I had anticipated.
Regardless of whether she actually knew anything or not, that was probably about the best response she could have given. Well, not as good as immediately closing the app and calling the cops, but pretty good for a 15-year-old.
A starvation cult accused of being responsible for the deaths of over 400 people is still active, officials fear, as new graves suggest acolytes escaped a police round-up two years ago.
Kenyan police have uncovered the bodies of dozens of new suspected victims in recent days, including some seemingly buried long after officers claimed to have smashed Pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge’s fringe sect.
Officials have now told the Telegraph they believe some of his followers escaped the crackdown and continued to operate nearby, potentially prolonging one of the worst cult-related mass deaths ever recorded.
The breakaway group is thought to consist of those who fled police raids in early 2023, and also brainwashed members who have been unable to escape its extremist teachings.
I have this pet crackpot hypothesis that all of the nuts predicting the End of the World are the only reason the world still exists. See, “You will know not the day nor the hour”, so as long as someone thinks any given day will be the End, it can’t be that day. And there are enough nuts in the world that, every day, someone thinks it’ll be the end.