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Anti-Gay Pastor Who Said Orlando Victims ‘Got What They Deserved’ Guilty of Sexually Molesting Boy and Girl

April 11, 2017 by Andy Towle Leave a Comment

Kenneth Adkins

An anti-gay Georgia pastor who said that the victims of the Orlando massacre ‘got what they deserved’ has been found guilty of eight counts of child molestation of a young boy and girl who attended his church. A jury took just one hour to decide their verdict.

Kenneth Adkins, 56, has also fought against expanding non-discrimination protections to LGBT people in Jacksonville, Florida.

During the battle for Jacksonville’s ordinance, Adkins dressed in drag and made threats on Facebook, saying, “I am gonna ‘pee’ next to your women in the women’s bathroom and let’s see how y’all feel.”

Kenneth Adkins

Adkins, “a former drug addict who reinvented himself in Jacksonville when he opened up his public relations firm,” according to Savannah Now, has also been married four times and has 10 children.

Savannah Now reports on the case:

He was convicted of grooming two teens — youths he was supposed to me mentoring — to have sexual intercourse first in front of him so he could judge if they were doing it properly to eventually joining in on the acts himself. Last week the jury saw two photographs of Adkins’ penis that he sent his male accuser in 2014. And they saw several electronic messages sent between Adkins and the female.

Five of the charges he’s guilty of relate to the female who denied anything of the sort happened. She lived with Adkins and his wife until about a month after his arrest.

“She’s in his clutches,” said Assistant District Attorney Katie Gropper. “What he has done to that girl is not only criminal, it is deplorable.”

The male told the jury last week that Adkins watched them have sex so many times that he lost track. He said the sex — in the presence of Adkins occurred in the church office, at the beach and in Adkins’ car. The male, according to testimony presented during the trial, initially told an Army investigator that his girlfriend was 16 and he was 15 when the activity first began. On the witness stand, the young man said his then-girlfriend was 15. Sixteen is the age of consent in Georgia.

In the wake of the Orlando massacre, Adkins tweeted, “been through so much with these Jacksonville homosexuals that I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve.”

He later attempted to walk back that remark, saying that the tweet was “strictly meant for the Jacksonville group that has made my life a living hell,” again referencing his opposition to Jacksonville’s nondiscrimination ordinance.

Adkins also made his anti-gay views known on various occasions on Twitter.

Some of Adkins' recent tweets. @ActionNewsJax pic.twitter.com/y2WjzKRTa8

— Russell Colburn (@RussellANjax) August 26, 2016

Adkins’s lawyer Kevin Gough says that once Adkins is sentenced, he’ll file paperwork for a new trial and “maintains the state deliberately withheld pertinent evidence that could have drawn into question the mental stability of Adkins’ accuser.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: crime, Georgia, Kenneth Adkins, Religion

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