A 32-year-old Christian faculty chief is in sizzling water after it was uncovered he allegedly groomed and stalked a teenage scholar.
John “Jay” Brownlow has been accused of grooming a teenage boy that attends Westminster Academy in Memphis, Tennessee the place he labored as Chief Financial Officer. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, it’s alleged that the previous church youth director saved in touch with one among 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! According to indictment papers, he snuck into the household’s house to put in the cameras and to stalk the juvenile. Just disgusting…
From June 2020, the previous faculty chief would proceed to groom the boy and stalk him, solely being caught up with in January of final yr. Someone 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 prices.
Action News 5 spoke to Brownlow’s lawyer Leslie Ballin on Tuesday and requested:
“You pleaded not guilty on his behalf in court. Is your client innocent?”
The legal professional solely provided a obscure response:
“The allegations are indeed shocking. Does it mean it’s accurate and true? Not for me to decide.”
He did say, nevertheless, he’s seen the prosecution’s proof and Brownlow is standing together with his not responsible plea. Only time will inform what sort of sentence — if any — he will get…
Clinical Director on the Sexual Assault Center in Nashville Alicia Bunch is aware of that grooming has been a subject that’s been on fireplace these days in Tennessee, and she or he says predators are often near the kid — with most groomed youngsters being between 12 and 17:
“Someone who usually has access to children; that could be teachers, coaches, it could be family friends … The way that adolescent brains are working, their development, they’re trying to establish relationships and so any age child can be groomed.”
Just horrible! These individuals are proper underneath our noses and committing probably the most heinous acts in opposition to youngsters — but Tennessee is extra anxious about banning drag queens! Super 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 leader”), have urged another victims to come back ahead — as police allege there could also be extra younger children who’ve been abused at his palms.
So, so terrible. What do U assume, Perezcious readers? Let us know (under).
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