An antigay Baptist minister was arrested at his South Carolina church this week after being accused of impregnating a minor… twice.
According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, Pastor Phillip Jerard Buckson was arrested and charged on Wednesday with four counts of second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Then on Thursday, he was slapped with another second degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor charge, this one from the neighboring Gaffney Police Department,
According to Gaffney Police Chief Chris Skinner, the new charge is connected to another incident with the same minor. Additional charges may be coming.
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Police received two tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which led them to the alleged victim.
In her statement to police, the victim claims she first had “sexual intercourse” with Buckson at his home in October 2015. At the time, she was 13 years old.
According to the sheriff’s he incident report, she and Buckson continued to have “sexual intercourse multiple times” and, when the victim reached the ninth grade, she “became pregnant on two occasions.”
Both times she had “abortions to terminate the pregnancies.”
Evidently, Buckson thinks homosexuality is a mortal sin, but heterosexual statutory rape resulting in not one but two abortions is totally fine in the eyes of God.
Although Buckson, a married father of three, was arrested on Wednesday, this cryptic tweet posted to his official Twitter page about two weeks ago suggests he may have known something was coming:
Lawyered up and heading to court!
— Phillip Jerard Buckson (@pjbuckson) January 23, 2019
Buckson is currently being held on a $20,000 bond.
According to his church bio, he has preached in various churches South Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, including at several youth revivals.
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Bob LaBlah
From the article: “Evidently, Buckson thinks homosexuality is a mortal sin, but heterosexual statutory rape resulting in not one but two abortions is totally fine in the eyes of God.”
I bet he no longer believes that. lol I would have LOVED to have been there to see the look on his face when they stripped searched him and told him to bend over and cough. lol
Kangol
Oh, he’ll be paying dearly in prison for raping and impregnating a child twice–and allegedly forcing her to have abortions–but the larger point is just how morally hollow and repugnant a scumbag like this is. Spirituality has its value, but so many leaders and clerics in organized religions increasingly seem to be utterly lack in any moral or ethical compass. Pope Francis just admitted a group of monks were keeping nuns as sex slaves; what kind of moral authority could possibly issue from a religion in which clerics are behaving like that, or like the creep in this story?
Bob LaBlah
Remember ol’ Bishop Eddie Long down in Atlanta who settled out of court ($15 million dollars) with a group of young men he had been flying all over the world with him (first class at church expense) since they were teens while holding marches that featured ol’ Bernice King and preached against black gay men first and then white gay men second?
Black Pegasus
Nasty bastid! Lock him up and feed him raw ramen noodles.
djmcgamester
I’m not one to pick at people’s stupid past but this is different for two reasons: sex with a 13 year old girl and forced abortion. I’m not arguing that a 13 year old shouldn’t have to carry a baby to term but she should never have gotten pregnant in the first place.
As for age, it’s illegal these days but thumb through the Bible on the subject. It’s perfectly okay there except that he would have been forced to marry her. Fortunately, times have changed.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
WOW! that never happens!!