12:39 PM Thu, Feb 12, 2009
Steve Thompson
In today's paper, Scott Goldstein reported on the indecent exposure
case against Jermaine Jakes, son of the pastor of the Potter's House,
Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Read on for a description of the 29-year-old's encounter with
undercover detectives as presented in a Dallas police arrest warrant
affidavit.
The affidavit says that about 10 p.m. on Jan. 3, detectives were
working undercover at Kiest Park after citizen complaints about sexual
activity there.
The detectives saw Jakes and several other unknown men park their cars
in the parking lot, the affidavit says, then they saw Jakes enter a
wooded area, where he remained for several minutes.
Two detectives went into the wooded area, the affidavit says, and
Jakes walked directly toward one of them. With pants unzipped, the
affidavit says, Jakes began to masturbate while making eye contact
with the detective.
The detectives then identified themselves as Dallas police officers,
took down Jakes' information, and released him.
In vice cases like this, the defendants normally receive letters
afterward informing them of the charges and advising them to report to
the county jail to post bond. It's not clear to me yet whether Jakes
has done this already.
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/02/affidavit-describes-indecent-e.html
T.D. Jakes’ Son, Jermaine Jakes, Arrested For Lewd Activity
Article from here, 12th February 2009 -
”The 29-year-old son of popular TV evangelist T.D. Jakes was
arrested after allegedly whipping out his private in front of two
undercover vice detectives in a Dallas park last month, CBS 11 News
reports.
According to a Dallas Police report, Jermaine Jakes was charged
with indecent exposure on Jan. 3 after the incident at Keist Park.
The police affidavit says that Jakes walked up to one of the two
detectives at the park with his pants unzipped. He then began to
mast*rbate while making eye contact with the detective, according to
the document.
Faith Johnson, an attorney for Jermaine Jakes, issued a statement
that read: “We are aware of potential allegations involving Jermaine
Jakes and are undertaking our own investigation of these allegations
at this time. Given an apparent government investigation, we have no
further comment at this time.”
Jermaine’s father is the renowned pastor of the 30,000-member
mega-church Potter’s House in Dallas.”
The Dallas News reports -
“In today’s paper, Scott Goldstein reported on the indecent
exposure case against Jermaine Jakes, son of the pastor of the
Potter’s House, Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Read on for a description of the 29-year-old’s encounter with
undercover detectives as presented in a Dallas police arrest warrant
affidavit.
The detectives saw Jakes and several other unknown men park their
cars in the parking lot, the affidavit says, then they saw Jakes enter
a wooded area, where he remained for several minutes.
Two detectives went into the wooded area, the affidavit says, and
Jakes walked directly toward one of them. With pants unzipped, the
affidavit says, Jakes began to mast*rbate while making eye contact
with the detective.
The detectives then identified themselves as Dallas police
officers, took down Jakes’ information, and released him.
In vice cases like this, the defendants normally receive letters
afterward informing them of the charges and advising them to report to
the county jail to post bond. It’s not clear to me yet whether Jakes
has done this already.
The affidavit says that about 10 p.m. on Jan. 3, detectives were
working undercover at Kiest Park after citizen complaints about sexual
activity there.”
I don’t all know what Jermaine Jakes does or does not do exactly
within his father’s business ministry, Potters House. But this site
reports there is at least some continued involvement with TD Jake’s
Megafest [see here]
“It is with great expectations that you will take the time to
participate in one of the most spectacular events of the year. This
newly released info is in regards to an up and coming Christian
Artist. Lewis Banks Jr. AKA (GRENADE) is an evangelist and urban
entertainer who just caught the attention of Jermaine Jakes: Son of
Bishop T.D.Jakes. His debut music video was released this year and is
now airing in 7 countries. That is when Mr. Jakes saw the video and
suggested a briefing. Grenade then attended Mega-Fest in Atlanta this
year with Jermaine Jakes, and also performed at the Kraft Foods venue.
In August, a live concert performance was held with Jermaine hosting
the event in Atmore, AL- (Grenade’s home-town). NEWS is traveling fast
and a promotional tour is being organized. Our mission is to be a
light that captures the souls of today’s generation. We would love for
your church or group to be a part of this tour!
We have been receiving calls from ministries all over the nation,
so our schedule is filling up quickly. We would be more than happy to
go over available dates if your ministry is interested.”
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks of Quartz Hill,
California was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession
of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway who had relocated to Maine
from Huntsville, Alabama after having been accused of having sex with
his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the
allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White of West Chester, Pennsylvania, who
demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after
offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex
on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews of Houston, Texas pled guilty
to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling of Anderson,
Indiana was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year
old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram of Thurston County, Washington
pled guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years
in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan of St. Louis, Missouri
was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the
internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr, also of St. Louis, was charged with
two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland of Kingsport, Tennessee was
arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to
girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt of Pensacola,
Florida was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs of Hawaii County, Hawaii
pled guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler of Cass County, Illinois was charged
with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner of Clark County, Nevada admitted
to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter of Boothbay,
Maine pled guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage
boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. of Wrightsville
Borough, Delaware pled no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and
served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of
child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months
in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state
representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography
was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin
Vanderwall of Virginia was convicted in Virginia on five counts of
soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris of West Bend, Wisconsin, who
has been described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was
convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and
sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for
Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in
the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas
Elizondo of Bakersfield, California molested his 6-year old daughter
and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp,
Russell Harding, pled guilty to possessing child pornography on his
computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A.
Dasen, Sr. of Kalispell, Montana, was found guilty of raping a 15-year
old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several
grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he
paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young
women.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of
children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into
providing information about the anti-American insurgency.
These are all matters of public record, not hearsay. They have been
reported in both the local press where the incidents occurred and in
various national media. The perverts in question have come from all
over the country. Their major similarity is that they are Republican
Conservative Christian activists who have made their mark by preaching
family values while performing unspeakable acts of perversion, many
with minors.
So much for family values from the religious right. Now, I am not
saying that there aren’t a few pervs who call themselves Democrats,
but, somehow, these holier than thou arsh luchs (you can look it up,
it’s Yiddish for a**holes) are true and certain hypocrites along with
being perverts.
When a political party presents itself as the party of the righteous,
whether it is The Republican Party or the Shiite Party in Iraq, or for
that matter some members of the various Chasidic sects, you can be
absolutely certain that there is something being hidden under all of
that religious pomp. Consider the child molestation scandals that have
rocked The Roman Catholic Church over the past few years, and you will
realize that this problem covers a broad range of people.
However, when you consider the number of Republican members of the
religious right/anti choice crowd that have been arrested and
sentenced for these perverse acts with children, you come to realize
that in their place, at least, religion and conservative politics are
truly the hiding places of perverts and scoundrels, perhaps in larger
numbers than anywhere else in our country.
Or as Gomer Pyle might have put it, “Surprise, Surprise!”