{"id":1787,"date":"2013-03-25T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2013-03-25T20:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T02:58:25","slug":"unsettling-details-of-jack-schaap-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/03\/25\/unsettling-details-of-jack-schaap-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsettling details of Jack Schaap case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jack Schaap was the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana. He was ousted after it was revealed that he had sex with an underage church member.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this trial, Schaap began by claiming, in effect, that his prostate made him do it, as part of an attempt to lighten his 10-year minimum prison sentence. But his excuses riled federal prosecutors, who countered by filing a 23-page response that revealed previously withheld details of the disgraced 55-year-old pastor\u2019s actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a few details in this case that are truly unsettling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Schaap kissed the victim during counseling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schaap claimed that Christ wanted the two to be together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schaap created cover stories for his numerous rendezvous with the teen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schaap had sex with the teen in his office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Schaap &#8220;dishonored&#8221; the teen\u2019s father and mother.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So many questions. So few answers. The man&#8217;s a psychopath. My heart breaks for that young lady and her family. My only hope is that she get a lot of counselling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/The-312\/March-2013\/The-top-five-revolting-x-from-the-latest-prosecutor-filing-in-the-Jack-Schaap-case\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: In case you missed it, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2013-03-20\/news\/chi-schaap-church-teen-sex-20130320_1_jack-schaap-pastor-sexual-relationship\">he received a 12 year sentence in this case.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jack Schaap was the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hammond, Indiana. He was ousted after it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}