Baptist Pastor from Cleveland Hts. admits kidnapping and molesting two girls

[Ian David]

Pastor from Cleveland Hts. admits molesting two girls

Friday, June 22, 2007
Jim Nichols
Plain Dealer Reporter

A Baptist minister from Cleveland Heights admitted Thursday that he molested two children, including one of his wife's relatives and an unrelated member of his church's flock who was 12 years old and deaf.

The Rev. Wayne Biles, former pastor of Mount Ararat Missionary Baptist Church at 3793 East 131st St., pleaded guilty Tuesday to rape, gross sexual imposition and kidnapping. His plea deal calls for 17 years of incarceration when Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Hollie Gallagher sentences him July 31.

Biles could not be reached to comment.

He began a pattern of molesting his wife's relative about 13 years ago, "as soon as returned home from their honeymoon," said Assistant County Prosecutor Pinkey Carr.

The victim, also 12 at the time, told her mother, who advised her to keep quiet about it and pray, Carr said. That victim, now 25 and married, complied until last year, when she told Cleveland Heights police.

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[Solly Mack]

1. "...told her mother, who advised her to keep quiet about it and pray"

I'll refrain...

[ljm2002]

2. You'll refrain, I won't...

...that mother ought to be locked up along with the priest.

Just goes to show what a little old fashioned religious brainwashing will do for a person!

Shut up and pray, indeed.

[Solly Mack]

4. I saw that attitude firsthand when I was a camp counselor

long story - but I still get angry whenever I see it and that long ago episode plays out again in my mind...and I seethe

[knitter4democracy]

6. I won't, either.

That mom needs to be charged, too. How on earth could she even think of that kind of reaction? I would've called the police and then marched into his office to watch him get arrested. There are no words for the kind of rage I would have at that pond scum.

Did his wife know? It started right after their honeymoon? She had to know! Why didn't she turn him in?

How could anyone have any faith in that jerk?

[MountainLaurel]

7. Yep.

:grr:

[malaise]

3. More than half of the abuse of kids by so called

religious men is a direct result of the blind faith parents and guardians place in these perverts.

[greenissexy]

5. So typical of how those people act!

It's amazing what horrors those Christians will do just because they "know" that they only have to ask for forgiveness for every horror they've done in order to be forgiven and go to their version of paradise. As far as those people are concerned, they can kill or rape anyone and still be a good person.

[wicket]

8. Hope you don't mean all Christians

There are still a lot of us fighting the good fight :hi:

Welcome to DU.

[greguganus]

9. He has an appropriate last name--BILE n/t

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