A Georgia megachurch is facing allegations it failed to warn congregants about a former youth volunteer who’s been charged with trying to traffic a 16-year-old on the dark web.

Records obtained by The Roys Report (TRR) show that on June 30, authorities arrested Kelly Garrett Ivey—a former youth volunteer at Rock Springs Church in Milner, Ga.—and charged him with child cruelty and kidnapping. And last Monday, a grand jury indicted Ivey, 41, on first and second-degree charges of cruelty to children, trafficking, and three counts of criminal attempt to commit a felony, including kidnapping.

    • xuxebiko
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      1110 months ago

      when has it ever been them? But the bible-thumping crowd will continue to demonize vulnerable communities, because they don;t care about children being groomed or trafficked. They just want to be awful, horrible people and feel strong by punching down.

      It’s like their pro-forced birth stance, which is about denying women their basic human rights & controlling women.

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      Literally nobody should give a shit, the teen will be as traumatised no matter who did it

      Yes, that goes for certain News Agencies trying to get views by fearmongering

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        1110 months ago

        try to get a hold of yourself, you’re not making any sense

        • diprount_tomato
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          What’s important is what was done, not who did it. The victim would suffer the same, no matter if the perpetrator was trans or Christian

          And also news agencies love fearmongering to get the clicks they no longer get

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            who did it also matters

            1. to highlight the group of people who are actually dangrous for kids & teens to be around,so the vulnerable can be kept safe,
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            2. to avoid the demonization of an innocent group of people
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              Are teachers dangerous for kids and teens to be around? Cases of them abusing are sadly not uncommon

              And yes, let’s not demonize people, like all religious people or trans people

              • xuxebiko
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                Are teachers dangerous for kids and teens to be around? Cases of them abusing are sadly not uncommon.

                so what is being done to vet out the dangerous ones?

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                  Covering them, maybe? That gives schools a bad reputation, and that’s what they usually do

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            it matters in this case… this person pretended to be someone the kid could trust… that church is corrupt, and so are all churches like it… they are run by greedy little men, who love power and influence because they are full of pride… they are corrupt…

  • @Tolstoshev@lemmy.world
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    Me reading: Former youth volunteer who’s been charged with… “Here we go again, another groomer in the church”

    …trying to traffic a 16yo on the dark web. “What in the fuck???”

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      those Megachurch boys are entrepreneurs first and foremost

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      According to The Reporter, arrest warrants stated that Ivey was trying to sell information about a 16-year-old’s home address and places she regularly frequented, so she could be abducted or harmed.

      Atlanta News First reported that the warrants also stated that Ivey advertised the “virgin female” on “Slave Bay”—a website advertising unclothed women on the dark web. The news report added that in July, a judge denied bond and said Ivey “posed a significant danger.”

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        TF? I thought those kind of places were just government run traps for people who’d use that services to fall for

        • @jonne
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          I mean, they probably are, and they caught someone. It’s like that joke website that offers hitman services that gets real enquiries once in a while.

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      Because 16 years old was probably getting too close to the expiration date for this monster and figured he could make a quick buck

  • theodewere
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    i think maybe every Megachurch is just a gateway to MegaHell

  • HubertManne
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    this is the problem with the name of this sub. not really the name but like I had a guy in another convo suggest catholicism was worse than other christians because of the kid didlin and its like dude its all over in the other churches they just don’t have a large central authority to go after.

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    310 months ago

    Maybe it’s just the end of work grogginess, but I read, “trying to sell teen on dark net,” as though they were trying to convince them to check it out, by a marijuana, etc. Like trying to sell your friend on a TV show or something.