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Another Georgia “Pastor” Locked Up for Preying on a Child - Robert Leonard Coats, What’s the Deal?
April 03, 2008Okay, maybe I’m missing something here? Aren’t pastors supposed to be busy studying the Word of God, striving to be role models and setting themselves up as examples for others to follow?
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON in Georgia and Florida??? There is an abnormal amount of perverted pastors coming out of those states. We have another trick, caught allegedly going after a child when he should have been off writing a sermon!
I’ll pause here. If you are a member of his church or a “concerned friend”, DON’T roll up in here defending this man. I can tell you right now that I’m not in the mood. Try me and see. I’ve had about enough of these child predators!
A Habersham County pastor has been arrested and charged in connection with having sexually explicit online conversations with a person he believed to be 14-year-old girl.
Robert Leonard Coats, pastor of Mount Bethel Church of God, was arrested Thursday at his office. He is in custody at the Habersham County Detention Center awaiting transfer to Walton County.
Mr. Coats, 51, is charged with nine counts of sexual exploitation of a child after an undercover officer with the Loganville Police Department met him in an online chatroom, said Habersham County Sheriff DeRay Fincher.
He did engage in conversation with (the officer he believed to be a girl) on nine separate occasions, during which he engaged in sexually explicit conversation with the (officer), who he knew to be 14 years of age, Sheriff Fincher said.
Mount Bethel is a small church in Habersham County on Ga. 17. Calls to the church were not answered Friday.
Loganville officers contacted the sheriff’s office, and the two departments worked together to arrest Mr. Coats. Habersham County also executed search warrants for the church and his home, which is owned by the church. Two computers were taken and sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for further evaluation. It will likely be months before anything is found out about the computers, Sheriff Fincher said.
(We tell kids) people online may not be who they say they are, Sheriff Fincher said. We encourage parents to monitor what their children are doing. It can happen in your house.
Hat tip to Evangelist ET for story lead





