A 32-year-old Christian faculty chief is in scorching 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 Monetary Officer. On the peak of the pandemic in 2020, it’s alleged that the previous church youth director saved involved with one in all 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 express movies! In accordance with indictment papers, he snuck into the household’s dwelling to put in the cameras and to stalk the juvenile. Simply 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 12 months. Somebody discovered concerning 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 concerning the allegations, he was promptly fired from his place and arrested. He initially pleaded not responsible to his many costs.
Motion Information 5 spoke to Brownlow’s lawyer Leslie Ballin on Tuesday and requested:
“You pleaded not responsible on his behalf in courtroom. Is your consumer harmless?”
The legal professional solely supplied a imprecise response:
“The allegations are certainly surprising. Does it imply it’s correct and true? Not for me to determine.”
He did say, nonetheless, he’s seen the prosecution’s proof and Brownlow is standing together with his not responsible plea. Solely time will inform what sort of sentence — if any — he will get…
Medical Director on the Sexual Assault Heart in Nashville Alicia Bunch is aware of that grooming has been a subject that’s been on hearth currently in Tennessee, and she or he says predators are often near the kid — with most groomed youngsters being between 12 and 17:
“Somebody who often has entry to youngsters; that could possibly be lecturers, coaches, it could possibly be household mates … The way in which that adolescent brains are working, their growth, they’re attempting to determine relationships and so any age baby might be groomed.”
Simply horrible! These persons are proper below our noses and committing essentially the most heinous acts in opposition to youngsters — but Tennessee is extra frightened about banning drag queens! Tremendous 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 chief”), have urged another victims to come back ahead — as police allege there could also be extra younger youngsters who’ve been abused at his palms.
So, so terrible. What do U assume, Perezcious readers? Tell us (beneath).
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