Pastor gets 30 years in prison after setting up cameras to secretly film children getting undressed

[Galraedia]

A Texas pastor has been sentenced to three decades in prison for secretly filming children, some as young as 11, getting undressed and bathing at his church, the New York Daily News reports.

David Pettigrew and an accomplice set up multiple hidden cameras disguising them as hooks, clocks, charging blocks, a smoke detector, a picture frame, an air conditioner adapter and even a pen, according to charging documents from the Justice Department.

After being arrested last year, Pettigrew, 49 admitted to filming a child in his home and that he and his co-defendant secretly recorded multiple children at the Denison Church of the Nazarene in Grayson County.

Two websites and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children contacted authorities after he uploaded some of his footage to the internet.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/amp/texas-pastor-gets-30-years-in-prison-after-secretly-filming-children-getting-undressed

[Demovictory9]

1. Probably surprised to get 30 yrs

[Maraya1969]

2. Pedophiles hide in churches. They need to start actively looking at their emplloyees

for this type of crap.

I was molested by the minister of our church and I also was told by a friend that he had all sorts of pictures of from beach parties. They didn't know what happened to me, they just found it funny that I was in so many pictures.

That was so many years ago but it still makes me ill to think of it. And reading about it happening to other kids makes me ill too.

[malaise]

4. That must be painful

Sadly they don't just hide in churches - they hide out anywhere they can find kids - schools, youth movements, youth sports, etc.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Here's the pedophile

[smirkymonkey]

5. Ugh!

Just sickening, all the way around. What the hell is wrong with these people?