This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days....

South Carolina: Pastor Ronald Jones arrested for sexual misconduct with a child. Jones has prior convictions.
Minnesota: Pastor Arthur Ree charged with sexual assault on a minor. Bonus: Ree is 82.
Missouri: Father James P. Grady slammed with federal charge of recruiting a minor for a commercial sex act. Unusual: The minor is female.
South Carolina: Pastor Marion Leon Kosier Jr. charged with exposing himself to a five year-old girl. Kosier has twice been convicted of similar crimes, most recently in 1995 when he exposed himself to girls selling donuts door-to-door.
Pennsylvania: Youth Pastor Violet Davison pleads no contest to embezzling $68K from her church. Davison has a criminal record in Canada for extortion and fraud.
Uganda: Pastor Edward Bwanika charged with beating orphans who didn't work hard enough in his water selling business. The boys are 6-10 years old.
South Carolina: Pastor Tyrone Moore sentenced to 30 years for molesting young boys. Moore has two prior convictions for the same crime.
Virginia: Pastor Kenneth Montgomery sentenced to ten months in prison for embezzling $200K from his church. Montgomery was convicted in 1994 for grand theft and burglary.
Kentucky: Father James R. Schook placed on leave after being accused of molestation. The Archdiocese of Louisville has paid $30M in molestation settlements since 2002.
Arizona: Reverend John Stone arrested for defrauding 35 business to whom Stone had sold advertising on benches he did not own.

This week's winner:
The churches of South Carolina, for so generously giving convicted child molesters a second chance to preach the word of God. Or a third chance, even.