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Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies (roysreport.com)

submitted 1 week ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.

The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.

He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.

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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Always the ones you most expect.

[–] Linken@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Fork found in kitchen.

[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah. Except, as Trump says, 'Who would have guessed!?'

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's always the ones you most suspect

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

If there is a gambling indicator on who may possibly be arraigned on one of these counts, I think it would fail because now at this point we are try to prove a double double.. There is no house for this type of wager.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

Not a Democrat, atheist, or drag queen?

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

Aaaaaaand another one.

I'm running out of room guys.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

Religion is clearly the best grift.

If he were a Catholic priest he'd have the entire international power of the RCC protecting him. Dude picked the wrong church.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

The Bible doesn’t specifically condemn pedophilia, and in fact seems to endorse it, so I guess he was technically practicing Christian ethics.

https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/says_about/pedophilia.html

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

He is an expert in his field

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Ergo, Christian sexual ethics is criminal.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

Of course he was.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

In psychology we call that reaction formation.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Cue impending pardon and bestowing of hero status.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

So this is what a drag queen looks like?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Plenty of Orange Shit Stain copy cats. This sick bastard is arrested and yet the big POS is busy murdering people and destroying the world economy.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

umm, it was uhhh, research

--John Kent Tarwater probably

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah sounds about right based on the people I knew who went to Cedarville

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