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So this wonderful Christian raped the pastors 12 year old daughter. then said he would face the consequences and confessed to all about it. but then his lawyer is trying to get him off. but How much you wanna bet he said got has forgiven him? really all he wanted was for them to forgive him not actually paying the price for what he did.
Juan Martin Gonzalez said that he’d sinned. He apologized. He vowed to “face the situation.”
People in the crowd demanded more. God wouldn’t forgive him, they said, unless he said exactly what he’d done wrong.
Gonzalez kept talking. His words were captured on video. The video was later shared with police.
After Gonzalez was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation, his lawyers asked that the video be tossed as evidence. What it showed, they said, was a religious confession from a man who sought spiritual guidance. His words, they argued, were protected under a legal concept known as clergy-penitent privilege, which bars the disclosure of a person’s communications with a religious adviser.
A trial judge agreed. But an appeals court late last month overturned the judge’s decision. It ordered further proceedings in the case, which has raised difficult questions about the law, religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
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Juan Martin Gonzalez said that he’d sinned. He apologized. He vowed to “face the situation.”
People in the crowd demanded more. God wouldn’t forgive him, they said, unless he said exactly what he’d done wrong.
Gonzalez kept talking. His words were captured on video. The video was later shared with police.
After Gonzalez was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation, his lawyers asked that the video be tossed as evidence. What it showed, they said, was a religious confession from a man who sought spiritual guidance. His words, they argued, were protected under a legal concept known as clergy-penitent privilege, which bars the disclosure of a person’s communications with a religious adviser.
A trial judge agreed. But an appeals court late last month overturned the judge’s decision. It ordered further proceedings in the case, which has raised difficult questions about the law, religious freedom and the separation of church and state.
Should a Florida man's church confession be evidence in a criminal case?
CLEARWATER, Fla. — One day a little more than three years ago, a man gripped a microphone as he stood before a stage inside a Pinellas County church and told his pastor and parish leaders he was sorry for what he’d done to the pastor’s 12-year-old granddaughter.
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