XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, stl.general, alt.politics.democrats   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, sac.politics   
   From: democrats.screwing.up@again.again   
      
   Police are asking anyone who believes they may have been victimized by Brandi   
   James to contact 314-615-5400.   
      
   ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — St. Louis County police say a woman who was   
   considered a mentor to a child has been charged with multiple sex crimes,   
   according to court documents.   
      
   Brandi James, 25, was charged on Tuesday with two counts of statutory sodomy   
   or attempted statutory sodomy and one count of third-degree child molestation.   
   She is being held on a $300,000 cash-only bond.   
      
   According to the St. Louis County Police Department, the mother of the girl   
   her daughter’s diary. Inside it, the child had written that she had been   
   sexually involved with a 22-year-old church mentor. Police said information   
   found on the girl’s phone    
   supported the allegation and they had engaged in sodomy on at least two   
   occasions in 2022.   
      
   The victim told police that they had engaged in sexual contact over their   
   clothes.   
      
   "It's hard to hear, and it should be hard for us to hear because our kids   
   shouldn't have to endure these victimizations by adults," said Amy Robins, the   
   Forensic Services manager at the Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St.   
   Louis.   
      
   Police said James met the 13-year-old girl while at the House of Deliverance   
   Church in the 9300 block of St. Charles Rock Road.   
      
   Pastor Eric Battle of the House of Deliverance Church said James has never   
   been involved with the church in any capacity besides being a member   
   occasionally.   
      
   "Abuse starts with first looking for a vulnerable child that they can build   
   that relationship with, and then what we would call manipulate or grooming the   
   situation or the environment to make sure that they can take advantage of them   
   in those ways,"    
   Robins said.   
      
   According to court documents, James told other people about the incidents but   
   refused to speak to police.   
      
   Robins said that 90% of the time, a child is victimized by someone they know   
   or trust.   
      
   "Typically, it's not strangers who abuse our kids. It is individuals that the   
   children have a relationship with, are part of their family, are within that   
   inner circle, and have that trust and access to that child or teenager to   
   perpetrate those acts on    
   them," Robins said.   
      
   Detectives believe the incidents happened between Jan. 1, 2022, and Nov. 30,   
   2022. The church has cooperated with the investigation, police said.   
      
   The St. Louis County Police Department Bureau of Crimes Against Persons is   
   leading the investigation.   
      
   Detectives asked anyone who thinks they may have been victimized by James to   
   contact the St. Louis County Police Department Child Abuse Unit at   
   314-615-5400.   
      
   "If people believe that there are potentially other victims in the case, I   
   want parents to know that the Child Advocacy Center of Greater St Louis is a   
   support to help navigate this conversation with your children. We encourage   
   parents to have that    
   conversation early and often with their children so that this topic is   
   normalized and that it isn't something that they feel ashamed of or   
   uncomfortable going to parents about if they find themselves in a situation   
   like this," Robins said.   
      
   Pastor Battle said James was a college student who would come to church on her   
   breaks. He said that once the incident was brought to his attention, he made   
   it clear it needed to be reported.   
      
   Battle released the following statement:   
      
   "Brandi James is not now, nor has ever been, an employee nor mentor at the   
   House of Deliverance Church. Her relationship with the alleged victim took   
   place outside of the church without any involvement with the church. All   
   employees and volunteers at the    
   church are required to submit and pass a criminal background check. The church   
   is, and has been willing to assist in the investigation in any way we can."   
      
   https://media.ksdk.com/assets/KSDK/images/d1ab2882-5c4c-4c86-a67   
   -a9f830adcb4f/20240828T164631/d1ab2882-5c4c-4c86-a67e-a9f830adcb   
   f_1920x1080.jpg   
   Credit: St. Louis County Police Department   
      
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)