A youth pastor from Georgia has been arrested after allegedly lying about being kidnapped outside a rural drug store in an effort to cover up an attempted rendezvous with a male prostitute at a budget motel.
Christopher Keys is, er, was the youth pastor at the Wesleyan Drive Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia, and a teacher at Tattnall Square Academy, a private Christian school.
According to his since-deleted church bio, he is “a people person” who loves “to teach young people the truths of the Bible” and who has been faithfully married to his wife, Jennie, for 20 years.
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Last week, folks in Keys’ community became very concerned after their beloved youth pastor said he had been kidnapped by two Black men outside a CVS, driven to the motel, and robbed.
A communal panic ensued.
After Keys’ neighbor posted the harrowing tale to Facebook, where it was shared almost 800 times by friends and neighbors, a local media outlet investigated the story.
TV news station 13-WMAZ quickly learned through publicly available police records that Keys had made the whole thing up.
Sgt. Linda Howard of the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Keys was never kidnapped by two Black men outside the CVS and that he was actually robbed by two masked assailants inside a room at the Regency Inn motel while soliciting a male prostitute.
According to police, Keys connected with the man on Craigslist and the two arranged to meet at the Regency Inn & Suites last Tuesday, where Keys is reported to be a frequent customer.
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After checking into the room, Keys went to answer a knock at the door. That’s when he was confronted by two masked men, one of whom was armed. The men demanded he hand over wallet, cellphone, and keys.
After the assailants left, Keys called the cops and told them everything. He also said that “he liked to play around and was married to a woman,” and that he didn’t want his family to know about any of this, so he planned on lying to them and saying he was kidnapped.
Two days later, he was arrested and charged with solicitation of sodomy, which is still considered a misdemeanor in the state of Georgia, despite the U.S. Supreme Court striking down sodomy laws in 2003.
Ironically, the whole thing probably would have remained under wraps had Keys not gone around telling everyone he’d been kidnapped by two Black guys, causing everyone in the neighborhood to panic.
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Since the story broke, a spokesperson for Tattnall Square Academy told WXGA-TV Keys is no longer working there.
“We have no comment or information regarding the matter about which he is accused,” the spokesperson said.
He has also been removed from the Wesleyan Drive Baptist Church’s website.
Police say they are still searching for the suspects, who made off with Keys’ wallet, cell phone, and keys. His cell phone has since been recovered in the parking lot of a local Walmart.
Watch WMAZ’s report below.
Bromancer7
I hope that woman who posted that long screed posts again that it was all a lie. Its infuriating that the go-to for these racist assholes is “robbed/assaulted/kidnapped by Black men”. This is how Black people get killed, when another racist asshole sees one, I dunno, jogging, walking, chewing gum, sitting in a park, and decides they’re a threat and they need to be taken out. It’s vile and disgusting, and he should be charged with a hate crime and forced to post an admission of his guilt.
erinrpierce75
Jassica Sam Spend more time with your family & relative by doing jobs that only require for you to have a computer and an internet access and you can have that at your home…? 6.gp/a74e3
jw8890
I cannot believe this idiot lives not even thirty minutes from me. Georgia has enough problems to deal with out this numbnuts bad enough last week a guy got arrested for necrophilia.
Kangol2
Florida just had a case of a guy raping dogs, and some other state (out West?) had a case of a man raping horses, so Georgia’s getting a run for its money!
Bengali
I hope he loses his entire family – that they abandon him. He lied at the expense of so many others. Deserves no sympathy. Does deserve a good beating though.
BlueStateMan
Sadly his wife has probably forgiven him and is steadfastly standing by his side. Just as the Bible tells her to.
ScottOnEarth
To err is human, to forgive is divine. Everyone makes mistakes because no one is perfect. Your pomposity is annoying.
shakes_head
A married man regularly soliciting prostitutes and falsifying a kidnapping is not making a “mistake”. Stop making excuses for these scumbags.
MCrisp
@scottonearth The “mistake” was being a closeted, homophobic, racist. A mistake would be kissing a female co-worker and never doing it again. But breaking your vows, deceiving your wife, and perpetuating racist DANGEROUS stereotypes, just to a catch a dick discreetly. That’s not a mistake, that’s shitty person who deserves to lose everything and be publicly shamed. This is the problem with gay men. So many of us risk it all (career, family, health and dignity) just for sex with someone you have zero intent of ever seeing again. Breaks my heart.
ashersea
I want his defense to say that sodomy should be legal.
Chrisk
Should be?. It is legal. The supreme Court made it legal in 2003.
j41005
I don’t know what this guys sermon messages contained, but I’ll assume being Baptist that they were fairly homophobic.
With that said, why is it that the guys who preach the loudest against homosexuality are often caught in a gay triste?
BlueStateMan
How better to hide your homosexuality than to be a raging, flame-throwing, born again christian. He’s homophobic because in actuality he hates himself. Just another self-loathing pathetic excuse for a human.
snuggles65
Maybe he was going to CVS to find their infamous special on 2 for 1 Milky Way Dark Chocolate candy bars (lol), but maybe next time this guy needs to stick to the less dangerous Reese’s White chocolate peanut butter cups instead Just a thought
Woteva
Tut tut. The good book says ‘Man should not lay down with another man’ – especially at the Regency Inn & Suites in Macon, Georgia..! I can see Jesus clutching his pearls and saying ‘Mary – have you heard THIS one?’
jaack
When hasn’t it been the go-to line? “The darkie robbed/assaulted/ struck me (pick a crime)”. Blaming non-whites to cover up criminal activity is the southern go-to line to cover self-incrimination. He needs to be BILLED for the police time and costs into the investigation into the fake crime, then prosecuted for pedophilia. The rape of a minor isn’t the same as consensual sex between adults. If his church doesn’t decry this behavior and backs this accused criminal, then they condone pedophilia too. Don’t forget this is a wolf in clergy clothing among young men believing him. It happened to me in Catholic school. And who would my mother believe, the priests and clergy who molested me or my word?
theafricanwiththemouth
A racist and self hating closet case. A true Christian to be honest.
2020 and social media are really doing a good job of revealing the reality of black people especially in America, i mean come on. He could have easily said they were “masked men” as was the actual case, but this trash bag purposely indicated race for extra OOMPF! to his lies when telling his white christian buddies.
PS: organized religion, Christianity, Islam and the likes are truly breeding grounds for the worst of the worst. From homophobes, to racists and all the way to Pedophiles. Ew!!
Troysky
least important, but…kinda wondering how me met on Craigslist, after it removed it’s personals a few years ago. Sure there is a way around that, missed connections maybe, but it’s not set up that way.
Kangol2
Rev. DL Pastor/Xian School White Teacher Thing basically told everyone his racist fantasy involving Black men in a bid to exonerate himself, only the reality didn’t work out so well.
Clearly he missed those bits in the 10 Commandments where it says you should not bear false witness, or commit adultery, or covet masked (points to them during this Covid19 pandemic) rough trade and meet them at motels!
And Georgia, seriously, drop it with the “sodomy” crap between consenting adults!
jackmister
Religion is a mental illness. Especially Xstain.
ATX1954
The term “Youth Pastor” always makes me wonder about motivation. It’s bad enough to abuse people by cursing them of telling them they’re worthless but creeps like this guy, who uses the hierarchy inherent with positions as pastors, fathers, priests, coaches, teachers, and in the workplace, supervisor, producer, agent, client, customer, to impose themselves on the subordinate and unwilling. That is the behavior of a coward. So disgusting. I’d hate to be a child in a household that would toss me out because I am gay, particularly if I knew of NO safe haven with relatives or in the household of a friend whose parents saw the injustice I was enduring at “home”.
I hope this guy pays a sizable price for what he’s done.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
From the article: “According to police, Keys connected with the man on Craigslist and the two arranged to meet at the Regency Inn & Suites last Tuesday, where Keys is reported to be a frequent customer.”
Now the question is who else is lying. Craigslist stopped sex solicitation ads four or five years ago right about the time that mess with Backpage.com was all over the news. If anything it was Adam4Adam or some other site that people set themselves up for robbery or disappointment of some kind. Its sad this happened in the late Little Richard’s home town.
ricdardc1
Youth Pastor, says it all, How many FEEL TRIPS did he take them to at The Regency
blackhook
Georgia…married…youth pastor lol…because of course!
ffmikey
I can hear him now talking about the evils of homowsexyalls and the nasty things they do. What better source than a red neck who knows all the ins and outs.
yup5hioop
I was in such a bad mood until I read this and watched the video. I think my youtube feed put something about a “teacher being framed” or something defending him but I didn’t click the story…. can’t find it now.
Aires the Ram
See what kind of trouble internalized homophobia can get you into? Seems folks would figure that out, ya know?