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Children Placed Knowingly at Risk of Convicted Sex Offender by Wisconsin Pastor?~Let Us Prey

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Thomas L. Fuller, Jr, Whitewater, WI.  Bob Jones University Vintage, Junior Classification, 1992. Fuller  was a BJU "preacher boy" for three years. Married a wife from Bob Jones University before transferring and apparently receiving his degree at some point from Marantha Baptist Bible College in Watertown, Wisconsin http://www.mbbc.edu/

Thomas L. Fuller, Jr, Whitewater, WI. Bob Jones University Vintage, Junior Classification, 1992.
Fuller was a BJU “preacher boy” for three years. Married a wife from Bob Jones University before transferring and apparently receiving his degree at some point from Marantha Baptist Bible College in Watertown, Wisconsin http://www.mbbc.edu/

What did Thomas Fuller, Pastor of Kettle Moraine Baptist Church of Whitewater, Wisconsin do when Pastor Fuller was notified a pastor from Michigan the middle-aged man named Dennis Rintala started showing up to services at the Kettle Moraine Baptist Church in 2005 was a convicted sex-offender who had proclivities for teenage boys?

Allowed, Dennis Rintala, a known sex offender work with children un-supervised.

According to Reports

Despite these warnings, Rintala was allowed to regularly work and spend time with children he met through the church—often driving children unsupervised to events or to evangelizing around Whitewater, according to police reports and interviews with former members.

Rintala, 53, went on to prey on two boys between Dec 2011 and Aug 2012. Rintala was convicted and sentenced by Judges in Walworth and Jefferson Wisconsin counties to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting the minor boys. The boys who were both younger than 13 years old at the time the crimes were committed.

Fuller, who has been Kettle Moraine Baptist’s pastor since 2004, declined an talk via phone but has responded via email.

Fuller pined a Michigan pastor didn’t give an accurate comment of Rintala’s crime, and Fuller pined he didn’t find out about the sex-offender registry law until it was too late.

Fuller stated:
“We didn’t know behind in those days what we know now, No one did.” Really now, Pastor? No one knew…except you, of course.

The troubles under the leadership of Pastor Fuller go much further than Rinata.

In addition to Dennis Rintala, over a nine-month period Samuel Shelton, 18; and Matthew Vander Pluym, 19 plead guilty to allegations of sexually assaulting multiple children.

A month after Rinalta was arrested another male from Kettle Moraine Baptist Church was charged with fondling a minor girl and a few months before a third was arrested for assaulting children.

Matthew Vander Pluym, 19, plead guilty and was charged with one count of first-degree child sexual abuse. A plea deal gave him a suspended sentence and 5 years probation.

Between 2011 and 2012, another member, 18-year-old Samuel Shelton preyed upon 4 girls, all of them younger than 13.

Shelton told authorities he assaulted a fourth girl “about two times a week” during a Kettle Moraine Baptist Academy, a small elementary and high school operated by the church.

Shelton pleaded guilty in September to one count of sexual assault of a child and is scheduled for a sentencing in February.

Police say Shelton also assaulted girls during his home, located where Rintala worked: Camp Joy.

Camp Joy isn’t owned and operated by Kettle Moraine Baptist Church, though this site on a lists a church as one of a Thirty-Six “Association Churches” in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Questions arise over what the fate of the pastor should be, considering it is alleged he knew Rintala was a sexual deviant who preyed on boys. It seems as if Pastor Fullers Alma Mater, Maranatha Bible College hold Fuller up as example of someone “Leading by Example.”

“Kettle values engaging young people in ministry,” Clater said. “I greatly enjoy the opportunity to work with them and encourage them in their musical growth and their service for the Lord.”

“Encouraging students in spiritual growth and service for the Lord is a part of developing them to be “leaders for ministry in the local church and the world.” And as the numbers show, it’s a part that the Maranatha staff, faculty, and administrators all take seriously.”

With examples such as Fuller, one can only wonder how many other children will be preyed on while he hides the information from parents then when questioned feigns ignorance.


Filed under: Abuse, Bob Jones University, Independent Baptist Fundamentalist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, Male Survivors, sexual assault, Uncategorized Tagged: Abuse, Bob Jones University, Church sexual abuse, Independent Baptist Fundamentalist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, Male Survivors of Sexual Assault survivors

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