Youth minister charged with crossing state lines for sex with minor
A 33-year-old former youth minister of an Alabaster church has been charged with crossing state lines to have sex with a minor. Donald Brent Page of Calera is accused of traveling to Memphis on Oct. 6 to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex, according to an affidavit prepared by an investigator with the Memphis FBI Crimes Against Children Task Force. Page was indicted by a federal grand jury in Memphis on Tuesday. He is accused of making arrangements to meet the girl over the Internet. He resigned his job from Dogwood Grove Baptist Church immediately after his arrest, said Rev. Todd Burr, the church’s pastor. Burr said Thursday that Page had been at the church for three months. He would have been fired after the church learned of his arrest, had he not resigned, Burr said.
You know, one of the things that truly brightens my otherwise dark, miserable existence is the knowledge that sometime, and quite likely sooner than you might think, a holier-than-thou Christian will demonstrate that even the holiest among us are as deviant and perverted as anyone else.
I’m not going to get my yuks over Mr. Page’s very public demise, tempting though it might be. No, I’m just going to luxuriate in the irony embedded in a Christian youth minister getting himself busted for soliciting sex with underage girls. I often find myself wondering…do idiots like this just think that there’s no way they can get caught? I’m on the Internet…it MUST be safe…right?? Jeebus, how stupid does one have to be in order to solicit sex from a minor over da Interweb? Well, if Donald Brent Page is any indication, being a DUMB@$$ is a pretty good start.
Oops…I’m sorry, officer. I’m dsylexic, and I thought she was 31 and in need of spiritual counselling…something about wanting to massage my throbbing rod of righteousness. Can I go now??
