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Youth minister charged with sex crimes


Posted Saturday, May 19, 2007. — 3 comments
A former youth minister was charged with numerous sex crimes yesterday involving two underage boys who were members of his youth group.

David Baird, 45, of Penn Hills, was charged with statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviant intercourse, sexual assault, two counts of indecent assault, indecent exposure, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor.

Police said Mr. Baird had a variety of sexual encounters with two boys, aged 10 and 14, at his home while he worked as youth pastor for a Covenant Church of Pittsburgh in Wilkinsburg.

Mr. Baird worked for the church from January 1994 to 2004 as both a youth pastor and evangelical pastor.

During that time, Mr. Baird would invite children to his home on Orchard Drive, where the alleged sexual assaults occurred in 1999 and 2000.

Mr. Baird was released on bond yesterday.

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3 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.
May 19, 2007  


Blogger Anad said...
What the hell? I knew David for several years (1988 - 1992). I haven't seen him since around 1995. He and his wife had a large amount of children themselves (I'm not sure of the final tally). He and his wife ran Youth Group Home called David's Refuge for a few years. Before that he was involved in Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and traveled to Holland and England.

I stayed at their home a several times when we both attended the same Bible Study. His wife was a really nice person as was the David I knew. I knew them before he went to Covenant Church of Pittsburgh, in Wilkinsburg (I was attending there before he started). He had left Pittsburgh East Full Gospel after that Pastor had an affair and the church split.

Christianity (any Religion) only enables these types of occurrences by putting hurt people in positions of trust where they can be victims or predator also by the stress of appeasing an unappeasable god.
May 19, 2007  


Blogger sailerfraud said...
"Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers"

Just ask one of the most powerful proponents of abstinance, former Bush ambassador Randall Tobias
May 20, 2007  


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