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is this the junior tennis/Christ Life guy? http://www.facebook.com/WildSmile22

Does (did) he work at a church on Highland Colony?

Looks so much like the guy from the church on Highland Colony!

Is that a UVA shirt he's sporting?

He has bounced from church to church leaving every time people figured him out as a pervert. Was reported to police years ago but unfortunately they couldn't do anything until he actually did something illegal. It's unfortunate that someone who is caught grooming young boys and is pretty much known that he is eventually going to cause harm to one cannot be stopped until after he has done so. Be vigilant about letting your kids hang out with people. Unfortunately perverts target churches because people are generally trusting...

He was a tennis teaching pro (and I use that term lightly) at NE Courthouse. He was at all the junior tournaments (as recently as June) and traveled with players to out of town tournaments such as in Memphis and on the coast.

Kingfish note: The suspect is WHITE and the alleged crime took place in Madison.

AND...........the suspect is a resident of (drumroll)... Jackson!

Don't allow your children to go to a youth/children's event of any kind unless they strictly require background checks (from last 2 churches) for leaders AND volunteers. These guys prey on churches. Seen it a dozen of times. Many know they can't pass background checks or get good references so they either try to "volunteer" or give only the church they grew up in as a reference. If they leave and you know where they go, drop an anonymous call to next church (someone doing that saved me from one of these pervs when I was growing up).

Go Wahoos.

AND...........the suspect is a resident of (drumroll)... Jackson!

Jackson has many people sympathetic to the plight of these sort of adults. Funny how southern Madison County hasn't figured out who is representing them yet.

Did this guy have a record? Would a background check have helped? NOTHING is as good a surveillance in the form of frequent walk-arounds, and having two unrelated/unacquainted people in the same room with the kids.

Was he still youth pastor of Christ Life Church of The Highlands? The kids that he was associated with need to be questioned about this sorry perverted pedaphile. Amazing how these type individuals use the church and God to try and get by with this type of behavior. I wonder if he has molested his own kids.

Here's a video from a few months back: https://vimeo.com/122219577

Hearing this pervert had close "friendships" with many young boys and their parents in Jackson.

Hearing this pervert had close "friendships" with many young boys and their parents in Jackson.

Did this happen in Madison County or Madison the city? The church is in Ridgeland.....

In my rational mind, I know this is a type of mental obcession and illness, but when people hurt children it just makes me furious. This child is scarred for life and takes years and years to overcome the violation. Often if it is a person of authority in the church, the grown molested child will turn from religion. So sad and so sick.

And to you Jackson haters, bet there is a pediophile within two blocks of where ever you live, if you are in a populated area. You go to church with them, you shop with them, you eat out with them, and in far too many cases, you grow up with them.

Sexual deviance is going to destroy this country.

Only $450 for a great time in a great bus and stay in a great hotel. Yeah, I bet it's great. Thanks for posting the Vimeo, now I can vomit.

"Jackson Haters"? What the hell has this got to do with Jackson. Nothing! The comment was boldly made that he was white and it happened in Madison. Another poster clarified that he is from Jackson. Neither comment is relevant. Get off your damned Jackson-Pity-Party-Potty.

Vigilance is the only answer. Band directors, youth ministers, scout leaders.....not all by any means, but more than among the normal population or most occupations and avocations. Sorry if this is personally offensive to Kingfish. It's factual. These people are opportunists and will seek opportunities that associate them with their intended victims. This guy has sought and taken advantage of multiple opportunities that put him in close proximity with his victims. How simple is that?

10:31 - perverts have been around forever. They are a minority of the population and should be dealt with the utmost in punishment. What's really destroying this country is the high divorce rate. What ever happened to the sanctity of marriage? It's all lip service. Degrade marriage, degrade society. While I'm on the topic, why not let gays marry? Maybe it will bring up the percentage of functional households out there.

Fact Jack, a lot of what you say is true. There are opportunist everywhere. The one thing rarely see is for parents to be involved in what their kids are involved in. If your kid is in a youth group, you get involved in the group. If your kid is in Scouts, you go to that meeting every Monday night, you pack your gear and go camping one weekend a month. If your daughter is in the band, be the band parent that hauls the water, drives the truck pulling the equipment trailer, you chaperone the band party, you have the wind section to your house for a cookout.

Too darn many people want someone else to raise their kids, they want the kids involved in everything but they only want to drop them off and (maybe) pick them up when the event is over. They want to put that kid on a bus and send them out of town without following the bus and watching from the stands. Parents, get involved and you will see some of this crap, before the cops are knocking on the door to question your kid about what might have been done to him/her.

Be a parent. Your business will not fall apart, your golf game will wait and your kid will thank you one day.

The sad part of this story is that the people at the NE courthouse knew about his past deviant and perverted behavior. They chose to let him continue to be employed as a tennis instructor for young children. He also traveled with twin tennis players from Greenville.

Dear helicopter parent at 9:50. No scout troop, it's leader, it's members or your own child want or appreciate a parent attending pack/troop meetings or going along on the camping trip. That's a sure fire way to turn your boy into a sissy (as if mom or dad insist on going along).

The better way to approach it is to learn something about the people in charge. It's not that hard to observe and conclude, discuss with other parents, put yourself in close proximity with the adult in charge of the children. How hard is it to find out if he/she is married, dating, hetero, homo, questionable or has a background that you're not comfortable with?

Your notion of 'going along on the trip' is as silly as insisting you accompany your wife on 'girls' night out' just to be sure they don't talk about sex.

I would not hesitate to approach the 'leader' the same way I'd approach a boy who wanted to steady-date my sixteen year old daughter. Have a sit down with him and let him know straight up what your concerns are and what your expectations are. If he gets his feelings hurt or disappears, tough.

If you're doubtful as to how to broach the subject one on one, try this: "I appreciate your willingness to take on the troop responsibility. Our children are more important to us than life itself. I want you to know that we expect you, as their leader, to be vigilant and if you ever, EVER, see or hear of anybody attempting to take advantage of these boys, in any form whatsoever, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to notify me/us immediately and let us handle the matter. Have I made that clear? Again, thanks for your willingness to help out here, and, again, around here, we break arms and necks if the safety of our children is compromised. I'm picking up the tab. Stay in touch. I will."

And to 8:56, this ain't got jack-shit to do with the divorce rate. A sexual predator couldn't care less if the parents of his/her prey are divorced, married, cheating or widowed.

Keep in mind this is probably his first arrest. What would a background check have shown up?

3:11, I wouldn't want YOU around my children. You sound like a nut.

And if you think that someone's being "married" and "hetero" significantly lessens the chances of his being a pedo, then either you know very little about the world, or you have inner demons you're not confronting.

And, you, 3:52 are probably one of many who would wring his hands while pacing in front of the fireplace with a brandy......muttering to the bricks that you should have recognized what was right in front of your nose.

It's never fail-safe, but, through the process of discovery, elimination and inquiry, we can at least sort out some who are suspect. Or don't we owe that to our children?

A 55 year old, never married band director.

An obviously homosexual girls' basketball coach with a soccer team of twelve year olds.

All the females at the church making it known that the youth group leader 'doesn't like girls', but is quite comfortable with the junior-male-group.

Common knowledge that congregations in Clinton, Pearl and Byram were 'never comfortable' with the same guy now employed by YOUR church in Ridgeland.

Learning after the fact that several gyms had already let the guy go for questionable behavior involving young people.

Knowing full well that there's better than a 50-50 chance that the young priest who hangs out with teenage boys is a homosexual but trusting in the Lord that this can't possible happen at YOUR church.

We're all so intent on somebody taking on our responsibility for raising our children that too many of us just either don't give a shit or we fail to do our due diligence. Either we assume somebody else has checked them out or we just don't give a shit.

This guy Brandon has gone from church to church. He was confronted about his suspicious behavior with young boys. There are parents that allowed him to pick up their children from school and let children spend the night with him. The people at The Courthouse knew he was trouble a while back. This guy should have been locked up a long time ago! I heard he was also an assistant tennis coach at St. Andrews? Does anyone have any knowledge about that?

Jack, I have yet to know of a Scout Troop that would turn down a new leader a signed up one that is trained and will give his/her time, a youth group that would not be thrilled to have another parent to help or a school activity that did not need another parent to step up to the plate and do their part. I have the feeling that you use these excuses of leaders not wanting others around to smooth your conscience (or something else) of being one of those parents that let others raise their kids, while they are off doing something that they think is more important.

And to think that if someone is involved with kids would tell a parent when they ask what their "intentions" are is as off base as asking that 16 year old boy. They are going to tell you what you want to hear and go ahead and do what they want. Be with your kids, every minute you can and you will know what is going on, not sitting around guessing.

oh and as for the sissy remark, REALLY? People still think this way? Heaven help us all. Big difference in an involved parent and a helicopter one. Not much difference in a parent that lets others do it all and a dead beat. But at least you are not a sissy !!!!

good luck with that speech you give people that are giving their time to your kid. or a boy dating your daughter, hahahahahahahahaha

7:29 misses multiple points. First, the impact of telling the new 'kids' leader' your expectations is not that he will come tell you if he sees problems. The impact is that it will hit home with him if he's a perv. A perv will move on to safer pastures if he realizes he's under a microscope or in the cross-hairs. It's really just that simple. Please tell us you're not as stupid as you seem to be.

The 'speech' to boys dating daughters has worked for me twice. Sit down with a boy and let him know your expectations and your daughter's value to the family and he will disappear quicker than shit through a goose if his intentions are dishonorable. That's personal experience. How about you? All you have is opinion and theory.

The pastor of this church does a very good explanation to the parents of this church.

Have to take exception Jack's comments regarding Scout troop/leader/member not wanting a parent to attend a meeting or go on a camping trip. As a pack leader when my son was in Cub Scouts, I welcomed parents who wanted to stay for a meeting.

When time came to 'bridge over' to a Boy Scout troop, it became obvious that the most active of troops were those where a parent (mom or dad or both) was ENCOURAGED to attend meetings. Among other reasons for encouraging parental involvement, this allowed parents to get to know one another - to know those adults who would likely be accompanying the troop on camping trips and other outings.

Most likely a troop's percentage of boys earning the rank of Eagle Scout correlates with the parent's involvement in their son's scouting years.

This nondenominational church has no oversight. I believe the church suspect & the senior minister bogus!

he lived in Madison with an older couple for a few years until sometime in 2015.

He was a tennis teaching pro (and I use that term lightly) at NE Courthouse. He was at all the junior tournaments (as recently as June) and traveled with players to out of town tournaments such as in Memphis and on the coast.
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my main tennis coach hired him as an extra hand and he always made me feel uneasy. i could tell something was definitely off