[Vision2020] Wilson makes Somebody furious!

Sat Jun 17 20:26:54 PDT 2006

Joe,

  You need to read who is writing to you. That was written by Deacon James, not ME.

  _DJA

Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote:  I never said this, Donovan. But you're close!
--
Joe Campbell

---- Deacon James  wrote: 

=============
Joe,

I thought you were an advocate of not responding to anonymous posters.

Take care,

D.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Campbell" 
To: "Donovan Arnold" 
Cc: "vision2020" 
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wilson makes Somebody furious!

> Donovan,
>
> The main claim made by second plank is that the congregation did not know 
> about Sitler's abuse until 8 months after his confession. What do you say 
> about this claim?
>
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
> ---- Donovan Arnold  wrote:
>
> =============
> I am afraid all the information presented here by this anonymous poster 
> is incorrect. Police were contacted immediately after Wilson found out 
> about Sitler's monstrous actions. This has already been explained  several 
> times.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  _DJA
>
>
>
> second plank  wrote:  This is worth posting here. 
> Taken from a comment at
> http://rc-sproul-jr.blogspot.com/2006/06/open-letter-to-crec-pastor-doug-wilson.html
>
> That 8 month gap between when Wilson found out Sitler
> had molested children in Christchurch and when Wilson
> let other people know is what bothers me the most.
> And my fellow anonymous posters- it doesn't matter
> where Sitler was in all that time or what he was
> doing.
> Wilson was basically relying on SITLER to tell him
> which, if any, other children he'd abused. Relying on
> the word of a pediophile to protect the sheep was
> criminally negligent on Wilson's part. He gave Sitler
> 8 months of grace,whereby any small children he'd
> molested could get confused and foggy on the details
> of what happened to them. He abused children as young
> as two years of age. Eight months is a long time for
> the parents of all the two year olds in your church
> not to be told they might have been exposed to a
> molester.
>
> It's not his fault Sitler was a creep. It's not his
> fault that Sitler put himself in a position where he
> had access to children- that's what predators of his
> type do. It's not his fault that kids were molested.
> But it is his fault that he didn't make that
> information available immediately to his flock so that
> they could check with their children and make sure no
> harm had been done. If there are any children Sitler
> molested (or young girls that other man tampered with)
> that Wilson didn't know about because he trusted
> Sitler's word, then Wilson is responsible for the
> eight month period those children have been left alone
> with the pain and horror they experienced, with nobody
> to treat them, to help them, to reassure them because
> Wilson decided his church did not need to know a child
> molester had been with them until the sentencing.
> It is inexcusable not to let the flock in on this
> until eight months have gone by and the ability of the
> smallest victims to recount what happened to them
> completely lost. It was inexcusable to take Sitler's
> word for it that he'd told Wilson everything.
> Accountability alone would demand that he would check
> up on Sitler's story as best he could, and basic
> concern for the children would require that he let
> parents know asap so that they could make sure their
> children hadn't been injured.
>
> The parents in your church should have known within
> days of the confession, Mr. Firsthand, not within days
> of the sentencing.
>
> And now we know that Sitler was still posting pictures
> of children from Christchurch on his family's website
> up until the day he was sentenced- and Wilson says he
> didn't know about that. Maybe Sitler wasn't as
> reliable as Wilson thought- and it's not Wilson paying
> for that, it's any other children he molested that he
> didn't tell Wilson about.
> If Wilson was concerned about that possibility, he'd
> have let his flock know 8 months sooner than he did,
> but it looks to me like the only concerns he had were
> to protect himself- maybe he just didn't want fresh
> accusations coming out against Sitler. After all,
> NSA's lawyer had the supposedly 'repentant' Sitler
> plea bargain down to pleading guilty to only count,
> even though he had confessed to others.
>
> And that members of his flock can defend him for
> keeping this vital information to himself for all
> those months is just totally disturbing. What's WRONG
> with you sycophants?
>
> If my pastor told me "Eight months ago a man
> accustomed to visiting our church confessed to abusing
> some children, and he's going to be sentenced tthis
> month, so you should all know about it now," I would
> be furious.
>
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