A 32-year-old Christian college chief is in scorching water after it was uncovered he allegedly groomed and stalked a teenage pupil.
John “Jay” Brownlow has been accused of grooming a teenage boy that attends Westminster Academy in Memphis, Tennessee the place he labored as Chief Monetary Officer. On the peak of the pandemic in 2020, it’s alleged that the previous church youth director stored in touch with one in all his college students and groomed him into performing sexual exercise on-line.
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Not solely that, it’s reported he secretly put in cameras within the boy’s room to seize specific movies! Based on indictment papers, he snuck into the household’s dwelling to put in the cameras and to stalk the juvenile. Simply disgusting…
From June 2020, the previous college chief would proceed to groom the boy and stalk him, solely being caught up with in January of final yr. Somebody discovered in regards to the correspondence between Brownlow and the teenager and reported it to the varsity’s Headmaster, who in flip reported it to the police. After discovering out in regards to the allegations, he was promptly fired from his place and arrested. He initially pleaded not responsible to his many fees.
Motion Information 5 spoke to Brownlow’s lawyer Leslie Ballin on Tuesday and requested:
“You pleaded not responsible on his behalf in court docket. Is your consumer harmless?”
The lawyer solely supplied a obscure response:
“The allegations are certainly surprising. Does it imply it’s correct and true? Not for me to determine.”
He did say, nevertheless, he’s seen the prosecution’s proof and Brownlow is standing along with his not responsible plea. Solely time will inform what sort of sentence — if any — he will get…
Scientific Director on the Sexual Assault Middle in Nashville Alicia Bunch is aware of that grooming has been a subject that’s been on hearth recently in Tennessee, and he or she says predators are often near the kid — with most groomed youngsters being between 12 and 17:
“Somebody who often has entry to youngsters; that could possibly be lecturers, coaches, it could possibly be household associates … The best way that adolescent brains are working, their growth, they’re attempting to ascertain relationships and so any age baby might be groomed.”
Simply horrible! These persons are proper beneath our noses and committing probably the most heinous acts in opposition to youngsters — but Tennessee is extra apprehensive about banning drag queens! Tremendous backwards!
Brownlow is at the moment out on a $200,000 bond however isn’t allowed to speak to the teenager concerned within the case. His former workplaces, the varsity and St. Patrick Presbyterian Church in Collierville (the place we was as soon as a “youth chief”), have urged another victims to come back ahead — as police allege there could also be extra younger youngsters who’ve been abused at his arms.
So, so terrible. What do U assume, Perezcious readers? Tell us (under).
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