"Youth Pastor Charged With Production Of Child Pornography" Dept of Justice Western NY

[Budi]

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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Western District of New York
(FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
Friday, April 9, 2021

Youth Pastor Charged With Production Of Child Pornography
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/youth-pastor-charged-production-child-pornography

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nathan L. Rogers, 37, of East Aurora, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul E. Bonanno, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, in July 2019, a mother contacted the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office and stated that her 12-year-old daughter (Victim) attended a Christian music festival at Darien Lake with her church youth group.
*After going to the water park, the church’s youth pastor, the defendant, invited the Victim to change her wet clothes in his camper.
After she finished changing, the Victim discovered an iPhone hidden in clothing on a ledge.
The Victim looked at the iPhone and discovered it had been recording for about 13 minutes.
After deleting the video of her changing, the Victim replaced the iPhone on the ledge.
The Victim next discovered a second iPhone hidden in the sheets on the bed.
She also deleted that video as well, replaced the device, and left the camper.*
The Victim called her mother to tell her what happened. The mother went to Darien Lake, picked up her daughter and contacted the Sheriff’s Office.

Rogers was subsequently arrested, charged with Unlawful Surveillance in the Second Degree, convicted in Genesee County Court, and sentenced to five years’ probation in December 2020, with the first six months to be served in jail.

A review of the defendant’s cell phones recovered 24,017 picture files and 2,389 video files on the phone, some of which constituted child pornography.

The defendant made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy and is being detained.
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My fking god.
It took a wise 12 year old!

[dchill]

2. Dear Jesus, let us prey.

[Karadeniz]

3. Anybody heard of the Didache? One of the earliest Christian documents, probably evolving from

A Jewish document. FULL of warnings about how to recognize false teachers, prophets. People of bad intentions have been enough of a problem with the church to have earned an alarm as far back as the first century. The Way of Death section reads like it was written for the Republican party!

[dawg day]

4. This little girl's got some game.

She's pretty cool!