Preyed Upon
The clergy abuse archive — documenting abuse and cover-ups in America's churches and Christian schools. Every denomination. One standard.“Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14 (KJV)
One file per case. Every file follows the same structure: the case in brief, the institution, the court record, post-conviction and custody status, a timeline, the attributed allegations, the open questions, a living log of records requested and answered — or not answered — and the sources.
A case enters this archive only when a public record exists to build it from: a docket, an official release, a court ruling, or named reporting that can be attributed and checked. Cases are added one at a time, as the records are verified.
Case No. 1 is the flagship: Randy Lee Boston and West Chester Christian School, built from the complete Chester County docket and this archive’s own records requests. The national case files below it were opened in October 2026 from the major published investigations — the Pennsylvania grand jury, the John Jay data, the Houston Chronicle, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Guidepost report, NBC News, the Associated Press — collected on The Pattern page. They carry the same three-tier structure and the same status discipline: a plea is not a trial conviction, a charge is not a conviction, a civil judgment is not a criminal one, and an allegation is labeled an allegation in the file’s title itself.
Flagship case · Case No. 1
A fifth-grade teacher served 29 years at West Chester Christian School in Pennsylvania. Convicted at trial of sexually abusing a first-grader, he is serving 20 to 40 years as a lifetime sexually violent predator. Former students allege a wider pattern; the institution has never been adjudicated. This file keeps the record, the allegations, and the unanswered questions separate.
Independent Fundamental Baptist Convicted · Appeal pending
Filed October 2026 from the published investigations and court reporting collected on The Pattern page. Status labels are exact: a man who pleaded guilty is not labeled "convicted at trial," a man who was charged is not labeled convicted, and allegation-only files say so in their titles.
A youth pastor in 1998, later a teaching pastor in Memphis. The survivor's account was reported in 2018; prosecutors took no case because the statute of limitations had passed. Savage acknowledged a 'sexual incident,' and resigned. Never charged — labeled precisely.
Evangelical / Non-denominational Allegation only — never charged
A Borough Park cantor convicted in 2010 on eight counts of criminal sexual act in the third degree and sentenced to 10⅔–32 years; the conviction was reversed in 2012 for a fair-trial violation, and in 2014 he pleaded guilty to the same eight counts and was sentenced to two years. Released in 2014; deceased.
Orthodox Jewish (Hasidic) Pleaded guilty (2014)
A Buddhist monk at Wat Dhammaram who pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault and was sentenced in 2013 to 15 years. A separate 2000 allegation at the same temple was answered with a letter promising he would fly back to Thailand; a Tribune investigation found him serving at a California temple instead.
Buddhist (Thai Theravada) Pleaded guilty
A congregational babysitter convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 35 to 75 years. Families sued, alleging church leaders had warnings from 2004 and did not act; the church settled in 2018, and a federal judge wrote in 2025 that it 'had multiple opportunities to act and failed to do so.'
Latter-day Saints Convicted (2013)
A lay preacher in a tight-knit Minnesota church community who abused girls over some 20 years. Leaders held 'forgiveness sessions' instead of reporting him, as state law required. He pleaded guilty in 2024 and was sentenced to 7.5 years.
Mainline Protestant Pleaded guilty (2024)
An itinerant minister platformed for decades through Assemblies of God Chi Alpha campus chapters despite a 2012 Alaska guilty plea for sexual abuse of a minor. In May 2026 he pleaded guilty in Texas to continuous trafficking of persons and received 30 years without parole.
Pentecostal (Assemblies of God) Pleaded guilty (2012; 2026)
A pastor who moved from church to church for years as allegations followed him, known to senior Southern Baptist leaders. He pleaded guilty in 2009, served prison time — and returned to a pulpit.
Southern Baptist Pleaded guilty (2009)
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's central documented example of transfer without disclosure in independent fundamental Baptist churches: accusations by at least four teenage girls, a move to a Texas church, and no charges — ever. Allegation only, labeled as such.
Independent Fundamental Baptist Allegation only — never charged
An Erie diocese priest named in Pennsylvania's 2018 grand jury report — one of only two priests statewide who could still be charged. He pleaded guilty in 2018 and was sentenced to 2.5 to 14 years.
Roman Catholic Pleaded guilty
An allegation documented by the Houston Chronicle and the Guidepost record, included for the institutional record — not as a criminal case. Vasquez says her pastor abused her from age 14; no charges were ever filed, and her 2008 appeal for a Southern Baptist offender registry was largely rejected.
Southern Baptist Allegation only — no charge
A Philadelphia priest sent for evaluation in 1992 after an abuse report, against a treatment center's recommendation that he not minister to children. He pleaded guilty in 2012 to raping a 10-year-old altar boy.
Roman Catholic Pleaded guilty
A ward bishop who pleaded guilty in 2017 to forcible sexual abuse and witness tampering. Included as a conviction — and, on the church's account, a contrast case: a spokesman said he was removed immediately and the church cooperated fully with police.
Latter-day Saints Pleaded guilty (2017)
Founding pastor of an independent fundamental Baptist church in Columbus, Ohio. Arrested in November 2024, he pleaded guilty in 2025 to two counts of rape and was sentenced to 15 to 20 years.
Independent Fundamental Baptist Pleaded guilty (2025)
An ELCA pastor who pleaded guilty to federal child-pornography charges in 2002 and was convicted in Texas in 2003 on 11 counts, drawing a 397-year state sentence. Civil litigation over what his synod knew and did not disclose ended in awards and settlements nearing $69 million.
Mainline Protestant Convicted
An elder promoted twice after elders knew of his 1982 confession, who abused at least seven children. There is no U.S. criminal conviction in this case — its record is civil: a $13.5 million judgment, vacated on appeal, and confidential settlements in 2018.
Jehovah's Witnesses Civil only — no U.S. conviction
An Episcopal rector and kindergarten teacher who pleaded guilty in 2020 to possessing child pornography and was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
Mainline Protestant Pleaded guilty (2020)
A granthi and piano teacher who pleaded guilty in Montgomery County in 1997 to fourth-degree sexual offense against a piano student aged 11–13, and received a fully suspended sentence. Reporting in 2020 said the foundation kept him in his role for 23 years after the plea; the foundation apologized and said the full scope had been undisclosed — a claim the survivor's parents dispute. The plea is the court record; the retention is attributed reporting, and this file keeps them apart.
Sikh Pleaded guilty
A yeshiva teacher convicted in federal court in 2009 of transporting and traveling with his minor daughter for illegal sexual activity, and sentenced to 30 years. One count was vacated on appeal; the Second Circuit affirmed the reimposed 30-year sentence in 2013.
Orthodox Jewish (Satmar Hasidic) Convicted (federal)
Pastor of the flagship independent fundamental Baptist church in Hammond, Indiana. He pleaded guilty in federal court to transporting a 16-year-old across state lines for sex and was sentenced in 2013 to 12 years.
Independent Fundamental Baptist Pleaded guilty (federal)
A children's pastor expelled by the Assemblies of God in 1989 who went on to run a children's camp for decades. Indicted by an Oklahoma grand jury in May 2025 on rape and lewd-acts counts, arrested in December 2025, and awaiting trial — charged, not convicted.
Pentecostal (Assemblies of God) Charged (2025) — pending
A first-grade teacher at Yeshiva Torah Temimah who, indicted on felony sex-abuse charges, pleaded guilty in 2008 to two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child — not a sex-offense conviction — and received three years' probation with no registration requirement.
Orthodox Jewish Pleaded guilty — endangering the welfare of a child (not a sex-offense conviction)
A former Latter-day Saint bishop whose Idaho charges were dropped after the church's risk-management director discouraged a bishop's testimony — and offered $300,000 for confidentiality and destruction of recordings, per AP's recordings. Indicted in Virginia in January 2024; no conviction.
Latter-day Saints Charged (VA) — pending; ID charges dropped
A Boston archdiocese priest reassigned to parishes with children for decades despite repeated allegations and treatment for pedophilia. Convicted in 2002 of indecent assault and battery and sentenced to 9 to 10 years; killed in prison in 2003.
Roman Catholic Convicted
A 2012 California civil jury awarded $28 million over abuse committed during door-to-door ministry, after testimony that Kendrick had molested before and the organization's secrecy policy kept him in access. A civil verdict, settled during appeal — not a criminal conviction.
Jehovah's Witnesses Civil verdict — settled on appeal
A former Hyles-Anderson College faculty member convicted by a jury in 2000 on 11 counts including aggravated rape, in the prolonged abuse of a girl placed in his home. Filed with an explicit sourcing caveat: the surviving account rests on a single contemporary publication.
Independent Fundamental Baptist Convicted (2000)
A pastor who admitted relationships with four girls, took a seven-year plea sentence — and after release returned to the pulpit of a different Southern Baptist church a few miles away.
Southern Baptist Convicted
A missionary whose abuse the International Mission Board substantiated internally in 2007 without reporting it to police. Charged in Texas in 2018 with four felony counts, he pleaded in 2019 to a misdemeanor that left no conviction on his record and no registry requirement.
Southern Baptist Pleaded guilty (2019)
Convicted in 1998 of sex with a teenage congregant and placed on the Baptist General Convention of Texas's own list of convicted ministers — then founded a new Southern Baptist church in Houston.
Southern Baptist Convicted (1998)
A teacher at a small Islamic school in Detroit who was convicted by a Wayne County jury on all 15 counts of criminal sexual conduct and sentenced to concurrent terms of 35–50 years, affirmed on appeal. The year before, a Toronto court had acquitted him on similar allegations — this file states both outcomes.
Islam Convicted
Founder of a residential Islamic school in Elgin, Illinois, who pleaded guilty in 2016 to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse — in two separate cases, a former student who was a minor and an adult employee — and received probation and lifetime registration. At his plea hearing, prosecutors said the student had reported the abuse in 2002 and 'nothing happened.'
Islam Pleaded guilty
A Chabad rabbi who mentored at-risk youth in Crown Heights. Charged in 2011 after a 15-year-old's disclosure, he was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child — not a sex offense — and sentenced in 2012 to three years' probation.
Orthodox Jewish (Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic) Endangering the welfare of a child (2012) — not a sex-offense conviction
The first U.S. church official convicted of covering up abuse — a 2012 felony endangerment conviction that was twice overturned on appeal and ended in 2022 with a no-contest plea to a misdemeanor. Not labeled simply 'convicted': the full procedural record is the story.
Roman Catholic Felony overturned — misdemeanor plea (2022)
Leader ('the Apostle') of La Luz del Mundo, who pleaded guilty in California in 2022 to forcible oral copulation involving minors and a lewd act on a 15-year-old, and was sentenced to 16 years 8 months. In September 2025 he was indicted in New York on federal racketeering and sex-trafficking charges that remain pending — charged, not convicted.
La Luz del Mundo Pleaded guilty (2022); federally charged (2025) — pending
An unlicensed Satmar Hasidic youth counselor convicted in 2012 on 59 counts of abusing a girl sent to him for counseling from age 12, and sentenced to 103 years. The sentence was capped at 50 years, two counts were later vacated on appeal, and in January 2026 — with the District Attorney's consent — he was resentenced to 18 years. The convictions stand.
Orthodox Jewish (Satmar Hasidic) Convicted (2012); resentenced 2026
A United Methodist pastor in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, who pleaded guilty to incest with a minor and corruption of minors in the abuse of a boy beginning at age 9, and was sentenced on July 27, 2015, to 27 months to 15 years. Upgraded October 22, 2026 from the sentencing record reached through his Protestant Accountability profile.
Mainline Protestant Convicted
An elder convicted by a jury in Pennsylvania's Jehovah's Witness grand-jury investigation and sentenced in 2024 to 11.5 to 23 years. The Attorney General said two victims had reported the abuse to church leaders, who never reported it to police.
Jehovah's Witnesses Convicted (2024)
A Latter-day Saint member who confessed abuse to his bishop in 2010/2011, was not reported, and abused for some seven more years. Federal agents arrested him in 2017; he died by suicide in jail before trial and was never convicted.
Latter-day Saints Charged — died before trial
A Boston priest whose lawsuits the archdiocese secretly settled, and who was transferred to California with only partial disclosure. Convicted in 2005 of raping a child and sentenced to 12 to 15 years; released in 2017.
Roman Catholic Convicted
A director at an evangelical Christian camp in Missouri who abused boys over some 15 years despite reports to leadership beginning in 1999. Convicted in 2010 and sentenced to two life terms plus 30 years.
Evangelical / Non-denominational Convicted (2010)
Founder of the Barsana Dham ashram, convicted by a Hays County jury in 2011 on all 20 counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, who fled before the punishment phase and has never served the sentence. The jury assessed 14 years and $10,000 on each count; whether the terms stack was never resolved in the record, and no total is stated here.
Hindu Convicted — fugitive
Founder of one of America's largest megachurches. Indicted in Oklahoma in March 2025 for abuse beginning when the survivor was 12, he pleaded guilty that October to all five counts.
Evangelical / Non-denominational Pleaded guilty (2025)
A Butler County, Pennsylvania man convicted by a jury in January 2025 in the statewide Jehovah's Witness grand-jury cases and sentenced to 14 to 34 years. Filed from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's own release.
Jehovah's Witnesses Convicted (2025)
A youth minister hired despite a 1990 child-sex-assault conviction that legally barred him from youth-serving organizations. Convicted again in 2018 after more children were molested.
Pentecostal (Assemblies of God) Convicted (1990, 2018)
A worship leader who pleaded guilty in 1985 to molesting two boys, was restored to ministry by his father the senior pastor five days after leaving prison — and was convicted again in 1998 after abusing two more boys.
Pentecostal (Assemblies of God) Convicted (1985, 1998)
Founder of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, convicted in federal court in 2009 on ten Mann Act counts for transporting five girls across state lines for illegal sexual activity, and sentenced to 175 years. He died in federal custody in 2017.
Independent fundamentalist (Tony Alamo Christian Ministries) Convicted
An online Quran-recitation instructor who used the title Imam. He pleaded guilty in federal court in 2025 to conspiring to sexually exploit a child, conspiring to receive and distribute child pornography, and sexually exploiting a child, and was sentenced to 960 months — 80 years.
Islam Pleaded guilty
A bar mitzvah tutor and licensed social worker convicted in 2009 of molesting two boys under 14 and sentenced to 13 months. A Level 3 sex offender, he left for Israel in 2014 ahead of arrest on a new misdemeanor charge.
Orthodox Jewish Convicted
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