Alabama pastor drives girl to city park to rape and sodomize her, police say
This is what happens when we let them bring their Old Testament Law here.
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated (anah) her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NIV
This is what happens when we let them bring their Old Testament Law here.
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated (anah) her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NIV
“He rolled up on the car, the vehicle, and he found our 55-year-old suspect with a minor child, a female under the age of 16,” Sgt. Danny Reid told the station.
And investigators discovered that it was not the first time the pastor had allegedly raped the girl.
“There was a period of victimization over several months where he had sex and sodomized a minor female under the age of 16,” Reid told Al.com in a phone interview.
VanZandt was charged with second-degree rape and second-degree sodomy. He was being held in Pleasant Grove jail in lieu of $60,000 bond.
VanZandt has served as the pastor of Palisades Family Church of Christ since October of 2011.