28-year-old Jeffery Frodermann, of Menahga, accepted a plea deal for having sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl. Frodermann was a youth minister at Sebeka United Methodist Church. According to the Menahga Chief of Police Scott Koennicke, “Frodermann will likely spend six months behind bars and another six on house arrest.” Frodermann will also have a nine year probation period and have to register as a sex offender, but Quentin Ness, who lives across the street from the church and has three daughters of his own, does not believe the punishment was harsh enough. “If it were my daughters I’d want him to get life. Not six months.”
Two Aston men, one with ties to a church youth group in New Jersey and the other a Neumann University sophomore, are behind bars on possession and dissemination of child pornography and related offenses. Timothy Earl Bottomley, 24, of Scott Lane, and Brett M. Fenimore, 21, of the 3700 block of Concord Road, were remanded to the county prison…. They were among four men charged with or arraigned on multiple counts of possession of child pornography, dissemination of child pornography and/or criminal use of communication facility. Bottomley, who was taken into custody without incident at his Aston home Monday night, had told investigators “he was a youth minister at a church in New Jersey.”
Kansas City police have found that a youth minister driving a group of four other teens from the church was traveling 86 miles per hour before a deadly accident. The accident occurred Oct. 11 at 68th Street and North Ames Avenue…. Mahoney said in this case, the youth minister was going an estimated 86 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour zone at the time of impact. Kelsey Morris, 16, was critically injured in the crash and died the next day in the hospital.
Today’s YPW compiled by Slog tipper Rick, who adds that there is hope for America’s wayward youth pastors…
Mann said he told Clements he used to play saxophone and Clements invited him to jam with his band, the Bill Clements Group. In 2006, Mann had what he calls a “dramatic theological shift” and began writing songs—some about religion, as well as other topics. Mann, 31, was raised Baptist in Eckhart, Ind., and went to college to become a youth minister, but said he is now an atheist.
Humor us: did a youth pastor traumatize you when you were still Youngstuff™, Dan?
no, Dan was so homely not even the Priests would fuck him
Seems that the unregistered posters think being molested by a YP is a badge of honor. Who knew that “touched by the hand of god” was so literal.
People go to college to become youth ministers?
Youth pastors like this give new meaning to the phrase (which I heard quite often in my Boy Scout youth):
“Let the Holy Spirit enter your body!”
The path to enlightenment cannot possibly pass through the world of darkness embodied by the saxophone.
i donno y’all…this who column is a little negative for my taste. Youth Pastors and priests and other clergypersons are in a unique position of power over kids, since they have the who God angle, but they aren’t all bad. Youth Pastor-ship in and of itself is actually a pretty good thing, when you get a good one. I mean, mine when i was young helped me realise a different god ( not the punishing white guy with a long beard) than i was raised with thus really helping me spiritually and psychologically. also he gave me the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy.
incidentally, this column is just rubber-necking. Now, i love your columns to bits, Dan, but i figured you’d be more progressive. can;t we use these terrible stories as a platform of some kind? Like similar background checks/regulations enforced on youth pastors as we do on teachers or something?
That first youth pastor is kinda hot.
Athiest youth pastor! He could educate kids about the evils of religion.
@ 8: Oh shit, you can’t be serious. He’s ugly.