Showing posts with label million. Show all posts
Showing posts with label million. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Shysters, Perverts & Pimps in Jesus Name News...

drumbeat to my blogmama Lynn for this story.

It wasn't enough having a prestigious position in church, a wife, a child, and respect. Timothy D. Price III had to use and abuse his power as a church leader and sex up a TWELVE YEAR OLD CHILD. I will CONTINUE to POST AND EXPOSE PEDOPHILES-much to the chagrin of the attendees of named churches in my posts. What's unbelievable is that "church folk" stand by their pedophiles, perverts etc and not the victims. Well let me clarify-, if the perv has a title, they stand by him. Cuz let it be known that Mookie who has no car, no money etc is a pedophile they'll run him up out of the church the way the KKK did our people.


TIMOTHY D. PRICE III, who made it known in the video below several times that he was young, I'M PUTTING U ON BLAST FOR HAVING THE NERVE TO MINSTER IN SONG ABOUT THE GOODNESS AND LOVE OF GOD...WHEN THE ONLY LOVIN' U WERE CONCERNED ABOUT, WAS WHAT U COULD GET FROM A CHILD, A BABY, A MINOR, A KID!!
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Church official accused of rape

Music director held in 3 city incidents involving girl, 12


The 31-year-old music director of Bethel AME, a high-profile West Baltimore church, has been accused of rape and child abuse in a case involving a 13-year-old girl who is a member of the congregation, according to city police and church officials.

Timothy D. Price III was charged with second-degree rape, assault and child abuse, and multiple sex offense counts, city police said. Since his arrest Wednesday night, Price, who lives in Owings Mills, has been held on $1 million bail at Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Center, electronic court records show.

Price and the girl had sex on three occasions in his car, off church property, between early November and January, police said. Twice the meetings occurred in a West Baltimore alley and once in the parking lot of Druid Hill Park, according to police charging documents.

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Timothy D. Price III directs Bethel AME choir Video
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Timothy D. Price III, above


The documents allege that one encounter occurred after Price obtained permission from the girl's mother to bring her home from church Bible study class. Police said the girl was 12 when the incidents occurred. Price confessed to having sex with the girl, according to police charging documents.

Bethel AME's congregation has more than 17,000 registered members. Many of those who come to services on Druid Hill Avenue in Upton commute from surrounding counties.

The church and its pastor, the Rev. Frank M. Reid III, are known for their influence. A number of the city's top leaders, including Mayor Sheila Dixon and Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, are Bethel members, former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke is Reid's stepbrother, and Sunday services are frequent stops for candidates for city and statewide office.

In an interview this morning, Reid called Price's arrest "a real shock."

He said his church had not received any prior written or verbal complaints about Price, whose full-time job was to lead the various musical programs at the church. He said the last time he saw Price was during services for Ash Wednesday, two days ago. Then, later in the day, he got a phone call from someone who said Price had been arrested.

"For everybody involved it is a great tragedy," Reid said. "He had a good reputation, as far as I was aware. ... The people loved him."

Reid said that Price was hired in 2006 after the church went through a national recruitment process for a new music director. He said Price's references were checked, and that he came from a church in Houston. He has a wife and at least one child, a 1-year-old daughter, Reid said.

"It's a very important and responsible position," Reid said. "He is in contact with all members of the church, because of the position he's in."

Before coming to Baltimore in 2006, Price spent three years with Harvest Time Church in Houston, where he was director of the fine-arts ministry.

In 2005, he and the founder of the church, Bishop Shelton Bady, released The Voices of Harvest, a compact disc billed as music for "contemporary worship and urban church."

A short biographical sketch about Price on a Web site that sells the CD describes him as a "sought out" and "influential" man who has been "chosen to change the face of evangelism."

"Be on the lookout for this man as he Wins Souls, Meet Needs, Heal Hurts, and Birth Visions for the glory of God!" the Web site says.

Bady and other officials with his church could not be reached for comment.

When Bethel AME was looking for a new music director, Reid said, Price emerged as the "best candidate."

He took over the church's music and arts ministry and, in October, led a church choir in a gospel music competition at Morgan State University that was sponsored by UniSun, an African-American lifestyle publication of The Sun. The Bethel AME Church Outreach of Love Choir won.

Price was among several choir directors who spoke during a question-and-answer session with people who attended the gospel celebration at Morgan's Murphy Fine Arts Center. He said he had been involved with music and ministry for 25 years, nearly "all my life."

"This is how I live," he said during the event, which The Sun videotaped. "This is why I live. I believe it is to touch the lives, the hearts of people, and to bring them back to the heart of God."

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To the Price Family-my heart goes out to you. To the young woman who was raped, and I pray that you and your family can overcome this devastation. Thank God it was reported so that these lowlifes can be exposed.
CHURCHES be warned...PREDATORS ARE REAL. They prey on the weak, vulnerable, lonely and young.
Just bcuz it seems a person is 'anointed' (and that word is used too loosely in church these days-just bcuz someone riled you up, or got your attention DOES NOT MAKE THEM ANOINTED) doesn't mean they are. PRAY and ASK GOD TO REVEAL. The stench of perversion with children and others in the church is NASTY. Get those pervs out of the church!


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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Remembering the Million Woman March



10 Years After Philadelphia’s Million Woman March, Commemoration Events Scheduled
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Photographs from Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway 10 years ago on Oct.25 showed to America and the world a sea of women -- mostly black -- marching together in a call for unity and empowerment to tackle issues plaguing women and their families.

Two separate events this week in the City of Brotherly Love will celebrate the spirit of that day of empowerment and encourage black women to continue the quest for self-improvement and improvement of a people, organizers said.

Beginning Thursday at 3 p.m. at Eakins Oval, more than 5,000 women are expected to go “Back to the Parkway” in the event organized by Sistahs of the Million Woman March. That group includes eight of the organizers of the 1997 march, said Asia Coney, one of the march's original planners.

A smaller crowd is expected this year because they did not issue a national call for women to come to this city for this event.

“To borrow a line from our elders, we needed to clean up our own house before inviting other in,” Coney told BlackAmericaWeb.com. Still, several thousand are expected to participate from the region and a few larger cities, she said.
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My goodness!
Where has the time gone??
I remember my friends and I packed into the van, and headed to Philly from Detroit. We drove through torrential rains, we were driving blind that's how heavy the rain was. Then we'd follow cars that had "million woman march" signs in their windows, and cars followed ours cuz we had signs in our windows.
My most favorite sign that I placed in the window was
"Million Woman March or bust!"
the camaraderie was electrifying bcuz all of us black sisters knew this trip had purpose.
It was almost a no-go because when we were almost at Philadelphia, we stopped to eat in a suburb, a rural suburb-have no idea of the name, but when we walked inside of Denny's-all conversation ceased and as Tupac would've said...
"all eyes on me!"
I acknowledged the stares, but my stomach reigned supreme, and decided they could stare while i'm eating cuz i'm not leaving out w/out my Chicken Finger Salad.
That night we arrived in Philly and we weren't impressed. As a matter of fact-it was downright, rough!
We all decided we needed a shower and stopped at the first place, a motel, we came to.
Lawd, why did we do that??
It was a motel for crackheads and hookers! We rationalized that we weren't spending the night there, simply taking a shower...so we pressed our way in.
The man at the window was a schmuck, and there was a roach on the wall that froze when he saw us. I guess he thought he was invisible. we still pressed towards the room. it had a funky smell, and went to the bathroom, and it was filthy. that's it....shower can wait til we get to Marriott!
We were there all of 8 min and declared a refund was in order.
The man at the window decided contrary.
Not being one to accept "no" as an answer-I advised him to reverse his decision. We're from Detroit and I don't think he wants any of this!
Not until I threatened to call the police and advise them of drug use did he refund the money!
**skipping** The food was great, the women, young and old were beautiful esp in spirit!!
We had an issue with a waitress who attempted to inflate EVERY BLACK patrons' bill by approx $35-$40!
Can you say revolution?!
We almost turned that place out before the MWM festivities went down. :)
There were lots of hugs, tears, words of exhortation, hand holding, smiles, nods, and respectful salutations by all.
I'll always remember the MWM,and my being a part of history, but i have no desire to go back to Philadelphia!
You better recognize--revolution will always effect change, and change takes courage!
Ivent ;)