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Title: Pastor accused of Molesting Girls; ``We are preparing your body for service to God,''
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6034410,00.html
Published: Aug 23, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-08-23 23:05:30 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 199
Comments: 2

Thursday August 24, 2006 3:46 AM

WASHBURN, Mo. (AP) - The minister of a rural Ozarks church, his wife and her two brothers have been accused of molesting young girls from their congregation for years, sometimes as part of a religious ritual, officials said.

The county prosecutor says the Rev. Raymond Lambert, 51, of Grand Valley Independent Baptist Church, repeatedly had sex with two underage girls with the help of his 49-year-old wife, Patty, according to court records.

For 10 years, the pastor told the girls, ``We are preparing your body for service to God,'' the prosecutor said.

Patty Lambert's brothers - Paul Epling, 53, and Tom Epling, 51 - each are accused of repeatedly having sex with girls as young as age 4 in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

All four defendants face molestation and sodomy charges. Their attorney said they denied the allegations.

Lambert's church is on property owned by the Epling brothers and houses up to 100 people on a 100-acre farm in western McDonald County, Sheriff's Deputy Michael F. Le Seuer said.

``They refer to it as a compound,'' Le Seuer told The Associated Press.

The compound is behind a high gate marked ``Grand Valley Farm'' on a gravel road about 13 miles west of the small town of Washburn. The gate was barred with ``No Trespassing'' signs on Wednesday, and attorney Robert W. Evenson said the four would not speak to reporters.

``This is a matter of facts for the court, not of public opinion,'' Evenson said.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

``This is a matter of facts for the court, not of public opinion,'' Evenson said

"Trust Us" evenson says.

Only our opinion matters.

tom007  posted on  2006-08-23   23:10:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Brian S (#0)

"They refer to it as a compound," Le Seuer told The Associated Press.

Maybe we should call the White House a compound, considering all of the illicit sexual activities purported to have occured there. ;0)

"Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past." Richard M. Nixon

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