COGIC Pastor Senteced To Life PLUS 220 Years For Sexual Abuse

Special thanks to a reader of the Dunamis Word who recently brought to my attention the outcome and ongoing circumstances regarding a horrific case of sexual abuse. I want to stop and say this first....

COGIC SEXUAL ABUSE BY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR CLERGY STILL EXISTS AND NOT ONLY MUST BE DEALT WITH AND PUT DOWN, BUT VICTIMS MUST BE HEALED, MINISTERED TO, AND RECONCILED. FAILURE TO DO THAT IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF CHRIST, NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE SHOUT, DANCE AND SPEAK IN TONGUES!  

Although clergy sexual abuse is not unique to our church, and happens in every church and every denomination on Earth, I am disturbed when it happens in my church.

I would say to any pastor and any Jurisdictional prelate, unless you have a "Safe Church Plan" in place, you and the people in your church, and organization are dangling on the edge. I'll continue to deal with that in another writing, but background checks and sexual harassment training doesn't do it!

Logan Wesley III of Texarkana, AK was recently sentenced to life PLUS 220 years for his filthy and perverted acts and actions with youth of his church over a number of years. It seems that this "pastor" was so much of a predator, that he took time to defile kids on church vans, at his personal residence, at the church and seemingly whenever and wherever he could get time to rape his victims, and then would threaten them or bribe them not to tell of his demonic acts.  

After the sentence prosecuting States Attorney Kelly Crisp stated the following:

“The jury, having heard evidence that Logan Wesley has been terrorizing and

raping children since at least 1981, sentenced him to the maximum amount of prison time for each of the counts for which he was convicted,” Crisp said. “Wesley’s prolific and outrageous criminal behavior entirely justifies the sentence he received. The repeated violations of the criminal laws of the State of Texas caught up with Logan Wesley this week. Thankfully the 12 citizens of Bowie County who made up this jury showed this defendant the same amount of mercy he showed his victims, which was none.”

What adds insult to injury is that Pastor Wesley's wife and even Church Mother is now caught in the web of sin and defilement, because as mandated reporters, they failed to act and tell authorities when knowledge came to them that pastor Wesley was engaging in or potentially engaging in these acts and actions. The Texarkana Gazette reports that the next round of liability lawsuits have begun HERE.

YES, if a person comes to you, and you re in a position of leadership within a church, and you reside in a mandated reporter state, and you fail to report such acts, YOU COULD GO TO JAIL for being complicit in abuse. 

So here we have a church completely destroyed, victims that have had their life totally upended, an alleged pastor jailed for life, his family destroyed in the process, and many of you will only yet sing the praises of the church as if, "that was them, this is me"...well, YOU'RE NO BETTER than any of these folk. You're ungodly too, if you don't see the sense of urgency in dealing with and putting this mess and mess like it down for good!

For a considerable amount of time, COGIC has stood behind a "faith mission" concept claiming no direct responsibility for sexiually abusive clergy, while simultaneously demanding payment for annual credential assessment in the name of "National Reports", and no direct obligation to victims of said abuse at the hands of many of these national report holders. Allegedly, checks have been written by the national church to victims and several NDA's have been signed that continue to keep silence and allegiance among the ranks. While these reports may or may not be true, what is still clear, is that there's STILL NO CLEAR PATH TO RESTORATION for those who have suffered victimization, and I still await meetings to discuss plans that this church can implement to reverse all of the negative stigma and ungodly actions surrounding this issue.  

As stated, progress has been made in certain areas, such as background checks and sexual harassment training, which are issues prior to Elder DL Foster's COGIC ABUSE WATCH, were not on the horizon to be fixed and or addressed. So thanks for "some "progress, but that is not nearly enough!

NO PROGRESS has been made as to how the church handles those who have been victimized or reintegrates and restores them that have been hurt and suffer this abuse. NO PROGRESS has been made as to how the church immediately removes such pastors or delays pastoral activities until such questions have been given a response. The procedural codes need to be updated, but there is no will to do so in many instances. 

Well, as stated above, the victims have filed civil suit for damages and COGIC has been named a party to their suit. For certain COGIC will seek summary dismissal, claiming that they have no direct responsibility for this pastor's actions as I have witnessed in many other instances and been party to in at least one. Who knows how that will go or how that will be interpreted by the court, but the fact is, beyond the courts, the CHURCH SHOULD DO RIGHT and be actively engaged in the RESTORATION of these victims both emotionally and spiritually. Be the LIGHT that we claim that we are. It's really just that simple.

Blessed!