French Priest Sentenced To 3 Years For Embezzling $3M

France: A Catholic priest who drove a Ferrari, kept mistresses and siphoned off more than £2 million of charity donations has been jailed for fraud in France.

Father Antoine Videau, 64, received a three-year prison sentence for crimes that led to him being known as the "Playboy Padre".

Much of the money was being used to fund his multi-millionaire lifestyle which included regular visits to casinos in Las Vegas and Monte Carlo.

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Father Videau set up home with a young woman in La Ciotat, in the Bouches-du-Rhône area of France. He was also frequently seen winning and dinning other young women in upmarket restaurants around Europe

Rabbi Charged With Sexual Assault On A Child

Massachusetts: The Suffolk County district attorney says a rabbi who once taught at a Boston-area school faces another child assault charge.

Authorities said Sunday that Stanley Z. Levitt was charged with indecent assault and battery on a child. The 64-year-old Levitt is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Suffolk Superior Court

Levitt was arraigned last year on four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. Prosecutors say he assaulted two boys about 11 years old who attended the Maimonides School in Brookline where he taught between 1974 and 1977.

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In one case, Levitt entered a plea of no contest to indecent assault and corrupting a minor -- both classified as misdemeanors. He was sentenced in 2004 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to five years probation. Another case went to trial and resulted in a not guilty verdict. Charges were withdrawn in the third case.

Pastor Arrested For Sexually Explicit Text Messages

Florida: A Brevard County youth minister, who is charged with soliciting sex from a minor, was arrested on Thursday. Rockledge Police took 36-year-old Jermel Manns into custody after officers said he sent a teenager a text message asking for sex.

Manns is a convicted sex offender from Illinois who never registered locally, and he got a youth pastor job from his uncle.

Pastor Errol Beckford, of Celebration Tabernacle Church in Cocoa, who is Manns' uncle, claims he had no idea about his nephew’s history. “He worked in the school system, he went to bible college, he was squeaky clean”. So why no criminal background check? “There was no hint, no reason for us to do it, and he was a family member,” said Beckford, “and if you interview my family they’ll tell you this is the first they’re hearing it.”
 
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Rockledge police said Manns sent the text message to 16-year-old boy. Manns is also a registered sex offender in Illinois, arrested and convicted of sexually abusing a teen a few years back.

Pastor Sentenced To 20 years For Child Molestation

Colorado: A Boulder District judge today sentenced a former Longmont church youth pastor and Fort Collins high school counselor to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting children 16 years ago.

Bradley Boda pleaded guilty in April to sexual assault on a child with a pattern of abuse and sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust. His deal stipulates that a judge may sentence him to between 10 and 20 years in prison, followed by lifetime probation. Prosecutors dismissed 11 other felony counts.

In November 2008, Longmont police began investigating reports from men who said Boda used his position with the church to develop sexual relationships with them when they were as young as 11. He was either a church volunteer or a youth director from 1991 to 2004.

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One man told investigators he had started a relationship with Boda when he was 13 and it lasted about a year. Another told police he had encounters with Boda from the time he was 13 until he was 17.

Youth Pastor Faces Seduction Charges

Indiana: A West Lafayette man faces five felony charges of child seduction after allegedly inappropriately touching a minor in his care.

53-year-old William Lee Porter was also charged with criminal deviance today, another felony.
According to court documents, the victim said that Porter had touched her breasts on fifteen to twenty separate occasions between April 2007 and November 2008. The victim was sixteen and seventeen years old at the time.

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The documents state that the victim said that on an occasion in July 2009, Porter shoved her onto a couch and performed oral sex on her against her will.

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