11 children identified as potential victims of Washtenaw County youth pastor

[u/bee-salad]

https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/12/11-children-identified-as-potential-victims-of-washtenaw-county-youth-pastor.html?outputType=amp

Radcliff, 29, has been charged with 33 felonies, including nine counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, eight counts of aggravated child sexually abusive activity, eight counts of child sexually abusive activity and eight counts related to using a computer to commit a crime. He is facing up to life in prison.

At least one of the 11 children was younger than 13 when Radcliff coerced him into engaging in oral sex, according to a Nov. 25 swear-to hearing before 14A-1 District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson. The abuse continued for multiple years, Michigan State Police Trooper Denis McCarthy said during the hearing.

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[u/Lost_Figure_5892]

Piece of feces. Keep your kids away from youth pastors, pastors, churches.

[u/roguebandwidth → u/Lost_Figure_5892]

Agreed. Also diligently check your local sex offender registry (just google it). Mine lit up like a Christmas tree. The threats are everywhere, be careful.

[u/cobaltcrane → u/roguebandwidth]

Merry Christmas!

[u/ShadowRylander → u/cobaltcrane]

That's not merry at all! 😦

[u/cobaltcrane → u/ShadowRylander]

Nope but it feels very Christian

[u/Chratthew47150]

Children are not safe in churches

[u/thelocker517]

A "man of God", so he'll probably get probation so he can return to the church asap.

[u/TweeksTurbos]

But a Krampus parade is bad for kids.

[u/Confident_Fortune_32]

Tangentially: we have failed our children by giving them no tools to identify or disclose abuse when it's happening.

Accusations are most often made after victims are adults, and that makes it possible for predators like this guy to abuse kids for years.

It's as if we set out to create the conditions that make this kind of predation easier.

[u/Haunting-Truth9451 → u/Confident_Fortune_32]

Isn’t it interesting how an organization that keeps getting caught covering up child sex abuse also opposes education that would give kids the tools and language to report child sex abuse?

[u/ArdenJaguar]

Oh, he'll "repent," and all will be forgiven.

[u/PolyAndPolygons]

And nothing happens to the churches. The believers still believe and participate, giving tithes and showing up 52 weeks out of the year

[u/BigOlBearCanada]

Identified so far.

There’s no way it’s just 11.

[u/bee-salad → u/BigOlBearCanada]

My thoughts exactly