On Twitter Sammy Nuckolls listed his occupation as "itinerant pastor." Perhaps "professional peeping Tom" would have been more appropriate.
Now his Twitter account is gone... GONE!, just like all references to him on Lifeway's FUGE blog. (Articles on Nuckolls from 2-1-11 and 10-10-11 are still visible in Google Reader.) No public statement by Lifeway, just a clean sweep, much like we saw last year when Ergun Caner was caught... embellishing.
Last week Nuckolls was taken into custody by the Gosnell, Arkansas police after a woman whose family's home in which he was a guest while he conducted a revival at a local church discovered Nuckolls had used a "spy pen" to videotape her in her own bathroom. She retrieved the pen and turned it over to the police who questioned Nuckolls and transported him to the Mississippi County jail where he was booked on charges of video voyeurism. According to the Blytheville Courier News Nuckolls confessed to the crime in Gosnell and also admitted doing the same thing to two women in Mississippi. He was released on $50,000 bond. And continued to Twitter as if he didn't have a care in the world.
Today we learned that police confiscated his computers and video equipment and discovered videos of an unknown number of other women "dating back years" and that investigators are "still sifting through it all."
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Olive Branch, MS police arrested Nuckolls at his home Saturday, charging him with one felony count of "photographing, taping, or filming persons in violation of expectation of privacy." He was later released on $10,000 bond.
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Not yet wiped (we saved 'em):
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Williams Baptist College >> Audio Archive >> 11/10/2010
Speaking at Mississippi College
FBC Jax Watchdog asks the glaring question:
FBC Jax Watchdog >> Video Voyeurism of Sammy Nuckolls - Were There Any Victims at Lifeway's FUGE Camps?
Updates:
WMC-TV >> Accused voyeur evangelist faces judge in Olive Branch
WMC-TV >> Evangelist charged with voyeurism could face even more charges
One question I have is why, if he just had to look at naked women besides his wife, he didn't do what at least 50% of his peers do and just go to the internet? Why did he feel the need to make his own videos? For the thrill of it? To humiliate his victims? I'm not sure I want to know.
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Good point, the comparison of wiping off a record of Sammy's posts, with how some wiped away a record of the lies and distortions of Ergun Caner.
WMC-TV >> Accused voyeur evangelist faces judge in Olive Branch
He pleaded not guilty? After confessing to police that he did it and after investigators found the cold, hard evidence on his computer? What do you say to that? What can you say to that?
New BBC Open Forum said...
"What do you say to that? What can you say to that?"
Gave up his religion and got a lawyer.
Interesting how pastors and leaders do things that they think is ok, until it becomes public....
Here's a father ( a judge from Texas) disciplining his 16yr old disabled daughter;
Here's a pastor who prods people from the pulpit to do it
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Just as a note, in cases like this, particularly felony cases, suspects aren't usually allowed to plead guilty at the initial hearing. They do that at a later date, after their lawyer has had time to get a plea deal.
Interesting. Why do you think a guilty plea was allowed in this case at this stage?
He didn't plead guilty, he pled not guilty. At this point, they are likely taking the case before the grand jury. After the grand jury indicts him(and frankly, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich), then the case will enter the phase where the lawyers will start looking for a plea if possible, and going through the evidence for trial preparations. I'm not sure which state will try Sammy first, but if he is found guilty, the next state will probably wait until after he has served his sentence to try him on the charges in their city/state. That's my understanding of what will happen, it's usually what happens in these cases where you've got crimes across state lines.
Duh. Disregard my question. It's been a long day. Thanks.
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