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		<title>COGIC sexual abuse policies: mandatory or suggestive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Enoch Perry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has the Church of God in Christ made any significant progress in getting its clergy sexual abuse problem under control? The answer to that question may lie with two key factors. (1) The consistent implementation of church policies at the local church level and (2) the denomination&#8217;s enforcement mechanisms. Without these two working in tandem, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=364&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>COGIC tightens up office holders screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Charles Blake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Lemuel Thuston]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/?p=362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After successive years of &#8220;looking the other way&#8221; on sex criminals and other assorted leadership undesirables matriculating into COGIC offices, some emerging signs indicate Presiding Bishop Blake may be slowly tightening up the reigns of access. Perhaps this has also been influenced by the newly elected Elder James W. Hunt, Sr., Chairman, General Assembly and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=362&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update: COGIC Elder found not guilty of boy&#8217;s rape</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/update-cogic-elder-found-not-guilty-of-boys-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[COGIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A jury in Chattanooga, TN found Elder Ronnie Powe, Jr. not guilty of statutory rape. See our report on Powe&#8217;s arrest here.  The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that although Powe did have sexual relationship with the boy, it wasn&#8217;t proven that he knew the boy&#8217;s age. The son of a Chattanooga pastor has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=350&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dunamis Word Broadcast interviews DL Foster on clergy sexual abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Charles Blake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Bishop Charles Blake, DL Foster, sexual abuse, video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=346&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OK COGIC Pastor who boasted &#8220;nothing will change&#8221; plea bargains on sex charges</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/ok-cogic-pastor-who-boasted-nothing-will-change-pleads-guilty-to-sex-charges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Vicker Broom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edwin House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma Northwest jurisdiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***Updated, scroll to bottom Report COGIC Abuse has learned that in early September 2011, Pastor Edwin House entered a non technical guilty plea to two counts of lewd molestation according to Logan County, OK District Court records. [source]. House&#8217;s charges were later amended to assault with intent to commit a felony per Oklahoma law statue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=332&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RCA praises COGIC action against confessed NC child molestor</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/rca-praises-cogic-action-against-confessed-nc-child-molestor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Charles Blake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report COGIC Abuse (RCA), a victim&#8217;s advocacy ministry, today praised COGIC&#8217;s presiding bishop and general board for taking appropriate action against confessed child molester Thomas A. Wiggins, Jr.  This blog reported the shocking story on December 3rd after multiple news outlets in Wilmington, NC said that Wiggins, an &#8220;Administrative Assistant&#8221; in North Carolina 2nd jurisdiction,  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=322&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The founder&#8217;s dream</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/the-founders-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop CH Mason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three months prior to my 50th birthday in September, I had a dream which included a  brief exhortation from the founder of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop CH Mason. In the dream, I entered Mason Temple and began walking alongside the right corridor of the building. There were different doors there and one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=315&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Born Again molesters: COGIC church is home to 2nd serial child molestor</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/born-again-molesters-cogic-church-is-home-to-2nd-serial-child-molestor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Matthew Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Born Again COGIC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS &#8211; COGIC SEXUAL MOLESTORS STRIKE AGAIN; OFFICIALS REMAIN SILENT In September 2009, the Winter Haven, FL News Chief  broke news of the shocking crime in which a young girl was  sexually assaulted multiple times by Minister Clevon Ghent, 35 and his nephew Genard Jones both members of Born Again Church of God in Christ in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=301&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No more rumors, no more lies</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/no-more-rumors-no-more-lies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come to put an end to rumors and lies. And you can count on Report COGIC Abuse to help bring an end to it. You can depend on us to report and document the truth without respect of persons. You can depend on us to cry aloud and spare not because an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=295&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bishop Charles Brown &#8220;remanded&#8221; on nearly $1million bond</title>
		<link>http://cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/bishop-charles-brown-remanded-on-nearly-1million-bail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop Charles Blake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stunning development in the case of COGIC bishop Charles Brown of New Orleans. The New Orleans Times-Picayune posted on December 2nd that the allegations against Brown have deepened. With supporters packing a courtroom gallery like a church nave, Bishop Charles E. Brown pleaded not guilty Friday to sex crimes against three juveniles dating as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cogicabusewatch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20800097&amp;post=282&amp;subd=cogicabusewatch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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