Minnesota cult leader gets 30 years in prison for sexually abusing 12-, 13-year-old girls

[jpak]

Source: NY Daily News

A Minnesota cult leader who sexually abused the 12- and 13-year-old girls he chose to live with him as the sect’s “maidens” was sentenced to 30 years behind bars.

Victor Barnard, 55, agreed to the prison sentence Friday as part of a plea deal he claimed he made in a bid to spare his victims and the rest of his River Road Fellowship from the ordeal of a trial.

"For him to say that he’s doing it to spare us …. it's very cowardly, it's offensive," Jess Schlisky, who was just 12 years old when Barnard began cornicing her into sex, told Fox 21.

Schlisky and another one of the cult’s so-called “maidens,” Lindsay Tornambe, testified against Barnard Friday.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. cornicing?

[prairierose]

2. exactly what I said..

these usage errors are getting worse...

[CurtEastPoint]

3. If the writer meant 'coercing' (I'm sure of it) then he/she MUST be typing the story on a tablet

or phone. God forbid. Whatever happened to copy editing?

[jpak]

6. Spellcheck claims another victim

Cornicing - definition of cornicing by The Free Dictionary

www.thefreedictionary.com/cornicing

a. A horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a building or wall. b. The uppermost part of an entablature. 2. a. A strip of molding that runs along the ...

[FSogol]

14. Sexual and Architectural Abuse? 30 years is too short.

[judesedit]

4. Trump's turn. Dec 16th court date for raping 13 yr olds

What's good for one is good for the other....no matter who it is.

[jberryhill]

5. Since when is Christianity a "cult"

He was a Christian, correct?

[WinkyDink]

7. When its leader is not ordained in a sanctioned Theology school; when it does not adhere to

established basic tenets, such as "No pedophilia," or otherwise breaks the law; when it depends on its "charismatic leader" as opposed to tenets to exist, and he isn't actually Jesus; when it is secretive and not in the Roman Empire of 35 A.D.; when there are threats and restraints put upon followers, and they refer to the temporal not eternal realm.

[jberryhill]

8. Where does the Bible condemn pedophilia?

I would be interested to know, since this is a "basic tenet" just where the Bible pegs the age of consent. I understand that Jesus' mother was below the age of consent in many states.


Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh ... And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught. Judges 21:20-23

Considering that God himself endorses organized gang raids to capture young virgins, I'm fascinated by this reference to a "basic tenet".

[WinkyDink]

13. 1. "Judges" is OT, not NT. 2. Matthew 19:14 carries a strong implication. 3. Virgin

birth.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/19-14.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth_of_Jesus
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Next?

[jberryhill]

15. "Thou shalt not kill" is Old Testament too

Which parts of the Old Testament did Jesus not believe in?

There is no condemnation of pedophilia in either thing you cited.

[Upin]

17. It's a cult when it's not your group...

It's all the same hooey but on varying scales.

[jpak]

9. The Donald - be afraid

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. One indicator that you may be in a cult...

..is if and when the Dear Leader decides to house all the young girls in his personal residence.

Seriously what kind of parent would be so brainwashed that they'd even consider allowing this?

[PassingFair]

12. Those parents should be charged as well...

Child endangerment at the very least!

[Quantess]

16. How could the parents go along with this?

Were they all really that naive?

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Just...Icky?

12 and 13 year olds? That's creepy. What a defective part this guy must be.